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TIL that in California and 3 other US states, “Ladie’s Night” are against the law because they are considered “gender discrimination

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R7mgj TIL static sparks produced under low humidity (as in to car doors in winter) can go up to 20,000 volts! 40 V is enough to be fatal with wet skin (1st part under Production; 2nd part under Safety in link)
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.
EgyZP TIL in 1948, Paul Hermann Müller won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the potent toxic effects on insects by DDT. This pesticide was later on linked to deaths and adverse reproductive effects in both animals and humans.
J1wLQ TIL that even after a quarter of a century, red deer on the border between the Czech Republic and old West Germany still do not cross the divide. During the Cold War, electric fences made the Czech-German boundary impossible to pass; red deer are intent on maintaining this old boundary.
l7BLA TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron