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TIL that because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

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GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.
aWGo TIL Rick James and his wife kidnapped a 24-year-old girl as a sex slave and torture puppet in 1993
bZPE TIL that Key West once seceded, declared war on the US, surrendered after one minute, and applied for a billion dollars in foreign aid in order to protest a border patrol roadblock.
vOer TIL the eastern part of Laos was so heavily bombed that most people can supplement their income by collecting scrap metal 40 years later, some completely rely on it
Me0LW TIL That Sabrina Pasterski built an engine airplane at 14 y/o, at 16 became the youngest person ever to fly their own plane; she graduated MIT in 3 years with a 5.0 GPA and is now a 24 y/o harvard student getting a Ph.D. in high energy physics.