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TIL Property owners segregated Charlotte, SC to prevent the poorer white and black communities from banding together against socioeconomic inequality

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VMvy8 TIL The number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, though men hold a slight lead, men (50.4%) women (49.6%). Males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25
OrMR TIL Québec is one of the only places in the world where Pepsi outsells Coca-Cola.
6EM97 TIL about the unique funeral rites of the Toraja, a tribal people in Indonesia who care for their deceased relatives long past their time of death.
1aY18 TIL About Blanche Monnier, a French Woman Who Was Locked in Her Room for 25 Years by Her Mother for Falling in Love With a Penniless Lawyer
Ypajv TIL when performing a push-up, you support about 69% of your bodyweight in the up position, and about 75% in the down position.