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TIL in Russia, women cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment.

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9wNnD TIL that a star is born every 0.0002 seconds, 4800 per minute
ONyL TIL most of the gold ever mined is still in circulation today. That gold ring or watch that you’re wearing, could have been from several ancient-historic figures such as Cleopatra or Alexander the Great
ZD4Y TIL that Snopes, wanting to stress that people shouldn’t believe everything they read, created a few entries with myths they made up and marked them “true”. Tv channel TLC ran an urban legends show that on one episode said something to be true. That something was one of the myths created by Snopes.
BrrNx TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
D11KJ TIL the worst maritime disaster in US history was Steamboat Sultana, where 1192 souls perished after its boilers exploded just outside Memphis. Not very many people heard about it since news coverage focused on the killing of John Wilkes Booth the previous day.