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TIL over half of all fourth-graders in U.S. public schools received free or subsidized ($0.40) lunches in 2011

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4Vwb TIL that judges in Britain are ordered to treat female criminals less harshly than male criminals
oR4OK TIL When hyperinflation drove Germans to use money as kindling . After World War I, money became very cheap in Germany. And to the point that the inhabitants pasted them on the walls instead of wallpaper - it was cheaper.
b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.
oYwY TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity
awab0 TIL about the solar storm of 2012, where a wave of charged plasma particles ejected from the sun narrowly missed Earth. Had it hit, the geomagnetic disturbance would have caused global damage to electronic systems with costs estimated in the trillions