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TIL there’s a tribe in China that women are treated as superior to men, have as many sexual partners as they like free from judgement of the society

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epEP6 TIL the word Utopia was invented by Renaissance Humanist scholar and writer Sir Thomas More, in a fictional 16th-century novel about an ideal society. He was eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the King's Church Of England.
yQDRM TIL that it was USA who fired the first shots in the Pacific War
rm01 TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away
N7546 TIL about serial killer/rapist Pedro Lopez, aka "The Monster Of The Andes"; who was convicted of murdering 110 young girls. He was released from a Colombian psychiatric ward on $50 bail in 1998. His whereabouts are unknown.
xGW0 TIL the median lethal dose (LD50) of marijuana is estimated (at the low end) at 1:20,000. This means a person would have to smoke around 15,000 pounds of marijuana in about 15 minutes to die from it.