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TIL that the wage inequality between men and women is hardly a result of gender discrimination.

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JlrB TIL a man rescued a dying crocodile, looked after it, tried to release the croc into the wild, but the croc kept coming back. The two became ‘best friends’ and for the next 20 years, Chito (man) used to get into the water to SWIM, KISS, HUG, PLAY with ‘Pocho’ the 5-meter, 450kg croc.
XEl7Q TIL: 364 Idaho inmates hacked hand-held prison tablets and collectively transferred $225,000 worth of credits to themselves
Y7d7A TIL I learned the most effective consumer cooking method for reducing the arsenic content in cooked rice
9wlkD TIL of the governor of the Louisiana Territory and General James Wilkinson, who was revealed to have been a top spy for Spain, nearly 30 years after his death.
ngG7 TIL A German biologist who claimed measles is psychosomatic, offered 100,000 Euros to anyone who proved measles is a virus. A German doctor presented evidence of the virus; the biologist dismissed the evidence, but the local court ordered him to pay up.