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TIL that visitors to reddit.com are more likely to be female than the average internet user.

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WkeV9 TIL that in an attempt to modernize Newfoundland, Canada, the province's Premier hired the former Latvian Minister of Finance, Alfred Valdmanis. While industrializing the province, Valdmanis embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars before being unmasked as a criminal and former Nazi collaborator.
RRL9 TIL there’s a militant Islamist group called MILF
5RLQ TIL a Malaysian women spent over a month in a box full of over 6,000 scorpions. She only got stung 7 times.
rRl84 TIL that the "Wednesday Demonstration" in Korea is the world's oldest rally on a single theme. Every Wednesday since 1992, former victims of Imperial Japan's large scale sexual slavery system has been organizing a rally in front of the Japanese embassy, requesting a sincere apology from Japan.
8aBdK TIL in California all DUI convicts are made to sign “The Watson Admonishment”, which forces them to acknowledge the danger of DUI. If you are the cause of fatal DUI after signing this you are charged with murder rather than manslaughter.