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TIL 70% of science and engineering students in Iran are women.

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oBXbY TIL Jeffrey Dahmer killed and ate his 17 victims in a one-bedroom apartment, with neighbors barely noticing anything besides the occasional smell of rotting meat in the hallway.
4XDrJ TIL of the fraternal birth order effect, which indicates that for every older male brother a man has, their odds of being attracted to the same sex increases by a third.
kK1g TIL that the first country in the world to run off completely green energy was costa rica.
vPXWR TIL that wealthy farmers in 19th century Britain would commission exaggerated paintings of large livestock as a status symbol, that they were somehow superior to other livestock farmers and breeders.
y1Vw TIL the 1972 film Deliverance caused tourism in Rabun County, Georgia to increase from the hundreds to the tens of thousands making it the number one source of revenue in the county. Rafting along the Chattooga River alone earns the county $20 million dollars a year