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TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.

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69VQZ TIL In 1939, Poland had over 3 million Jewish citizens. Today, it's between 25k and 100k.
5Yxbp TIL the first successful artificial insemination was performed in 1884 on a Philadelphia housewife without her knowledge. The doctor anesthetized the woman and took sperm from his “best-looking” student and impregnated her. The doctor and the woman’s husband never revealed the truth to her.
kJraB TIL it is a federal crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and a year in prison, for most people in the U.S. to possess any part of a bald or golden eagle, even just a shed feather found on the ground.
6961w TIL last year a news team ordered aluminum pots from seven different Amazon and Etsy retailers and found measurably dangerous amounts of lead in six of them
R5468 TIL that, during Egypt's early dynasties, rulers were entombed in flat-topped monuments made of clay-brick called mastabas. Imhotep conceived of building a more impressive tomb for his king by stacking mastabas on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form Egypt's first pyramid.