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TIL About 95% of firefighters in the United States are men

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XEpXP TIL that a 50 year old woman, Violet Gibson, attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1927. She fired a gun once, but Mussolini moved his head and the shot hit his nose; she tried again, but the gun misfired. She was almost lynched by the crowd but was rescued by police and taken away for questioning.
l4mB TIL that, Beginning with “Irishmen & Irishwomen”, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is the only one of its period to mention women equally.
RR9a TIL Bing uses Google search results
MME7 TIL: That witches were originally depicted as riding a broomstick as a euphemism riding the devils dick
eJr5 TIL that in 1915, a man named Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the result!, a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.