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TIL Over 40 percent more women are now graduating college than men in the US

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GADQE TIL that when Mario Party 8 was released in 2007, it was banned in the UK for containing the word "spastic", which is considered an ableist slur for sufferers of cerebral palsy there.
9wZKG TIL that Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada laid claim to the Scottish throne and offered to marry Queen Elizabeth to lead the Commonwealth. When she refused, he had four local British businessmen carry him around in a sedan chair at a diplomatic conference in Uganda.
GE9Q TIL of a murder in Ireland after a brawl that was unable to be solved due to all 71 of the possible witnesses claiming to be in the bathroom, leading the bathroom to be nicknamed the Tardis.