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TIL 12 states still have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.

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W7G5d TIL about the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, an urban myth from Mattoon Illinois, now thought to be a small 33-person mass hysteria
vKp8 TIL British doctor Harold Shipman (AKA ‘Doctor Death’) was proven to have murdered at least 250 of his patients, but may have killed as many as 459 people, making him the most prolific serial killer in recorded human history.
wLEv7 TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.
e0Mw4 TIL Words "Audio", "Video," and "Disco" mean "I hear", "I see", "I learn" in Latin
ErWW TIL A 27-year-old male patient fasted under supervision for 382 days and went from 456 to 180 lbs.