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TIL there are words known mostly by men or mostly by women
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TIL a trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300m
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TIL in the 1990s, the New Jersey Nets asked the NBA to change their name to the Swamp Dragons. The league spent $500,000 to protect the name. The NBA owners voted 26-1 to approve the change. The Nets were the lone no vote, who changed their mind, infuriating then commissioner David Stern.
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TIL The Netherlands, which fits into the U.S. more than 200 times and has a population density higher than Rhode Island, is the world's second largest food exporter.
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TIL Anal and oral sex are still class 6 felonies in Virginia
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TIL Data for the 1890 US Census was entered on punchcards & was processed by an electromechanical tabulating machine designed/built by the company known today as IBM; it took six weeks to release the results as opposed to the 1880 census, which took seven years.