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TIL in 1970, 20 percent of all girls participating in high school sports across the country were in Iowa. By 1976, a few years after the passage of Title IX, that eye-popping 20 percent fell to 5.8 percent.

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d8PXr TIL that Colin Campbell Ross, an Australian, was executed in 1922 for the murder of a child (a case which was sensationalised by Keith - father of Rupert - Murdoch's newspaper). After the original evidence was tested for DNA in 1998, the case returned to court, and he was finally pardoned in 2008
8vPa TIL there is a book titled, The Mouse That Roared, about a small nation that declares war on the United States in hopes of a swift defeat to get money to rebuild its country.
YpBZ7 TIL the CIA offered funding to artists Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning so that their abstract work would show how free artists were in the United States compared to the rigid work of the Soviet Union.
6njJ TIL - Ireland was one of the earliest countries to adopt a system of hereditary surnames (11th century)
PYZQZ TIL the anime studio Ufotable's name was created when its CEO saw a cool UFO-looking table and decided to name the studio after it