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mx4gv TIL that our brains cannot comprehend large numbers like the difference between a million a billion. 1 million seconds is 11.574 days but 1 billion seconds is 31.69 years.
0dw7A TIL Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first female elected to Congress (1916). A suffragist who helped get the 19th Amendment passed, was a staunch pacifist, opposing WW1, WW2, and was out marching in protest against Vietnam when she was 61 years old. A badass.
VMAY4 TIL in 2004 Morse code got its first update in 60 years, with the addition of the symbol "@". The new code takes twice as long as spelling out the word "at".
wlkE TIL A French woman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
VBovB TIL Snoop Dogg had produced several pornographic movies in the beginning of the 2000's