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TIL: The first 7 Aftrican Americans elected to Congress were all Republican

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16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
xV4jo TIL that before there was a presumption in favor of mothers in (Anglo-American) child custody laws, there was a presumption in favor of fathers. This is because, under the law of the time, children were treated as the father's property/servants.
VMdv0 TIL Millie Bobby Brown was born in the same province as Antonio Banderas
VMdWD TIL: Whistling to cat call a woman is just the whistle to recall your dog - but in reverse
9w8kD TIL a large number of the people we see fired in the film 'Up in the Air' (2009) are not actors, but real people who were recently laid off. They were instructed to respond as they did when they were laid off, or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had.