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TIL American men receive 60% longer Federal prison sentences than women for the same crime.

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0611 TIL in Ireland they used to give you a pint of Guinness beer for a pint of donated blood to replace the iron. However this was cancelled in 2012.
x6Ad0 TiL that nachos were invented by Ignacio Anaya. "Nacho" is the nickname of Ignacio.
6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.
PYxYV Today I Learned that '2001: A Space Odyssey' director Stanley Kubrick wanted to take out insurance with Lloyd’s to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence was discovered before his movie was released. Lloyd’s refused.
RoZ7 TIL the number of syllables per line in the lyrics of “Lateralus” by Tool correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci numbers.