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grWoy TIL In the 20th century there was a female gang called the Forty Elephants.Due to conventional ideas of femininity that women were weaker than men,courts believed it impossible women were orchestrators of crime.Most women were assumed to have played supporting roles and received lesser sentences.
Y78YW TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century
RAl TIL that the magazine KIDS DISCOVER does not publish a single advertisement in their issues because they don’t believe in marketing to minors
LkBbp TIL that a group of researchers determined that infinite monkeys probably couldn't write Shakespeare: 'The six monkeys - Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan - produced five pages of text which consisted mainly of the letter 's'."
x6vL1 TIL during the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-Prussian War, Von Bredow led 800 cavalry against a French force 4 times in size. He declared "it will cost what it will." The charge succeeded, but only 420 men returned out of 800. It was the last major European cavalry charge in history.