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TIL about the Scully effect, where women were inspired to take up STEM when they saw Scully on the X files; as a smart, skeptical woman and not a sidekick

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5MjP TIL that Wisconsin’s only pirate once got the crew of an entire ship drunk then proceeded to throw them all over board. He then took the ship to Chicago and sold all the cargo.
x4w5 TIL that after Union troops executed his sons and placed their severed heads on the gate-posts of his home, Jack Hinson, who was previously neutral, went on a one-man killing spree and sniped dozens of Union soldiers, at ranges up to ½ mile+, with a custom-made Kentucky Long Rifle.
ggy4 TIL Biotech firm Pembient has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that are genetically identical knock offs. The company plans to flood Chinese rhino horn market at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out eventually.
dD8aK TIL Billy Joel composes classical music, in addition to being a piano man. His most recent studio album, Fantasies & Delusions, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard′s Top Classical Albums chart.
brX0 TIL that Olympic skeet shooting was open to both sexes … until a woman won gold in 1992.