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TIL only 8% of the outdoor statues of people in the US are of women

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wBxo TIL ice, water, and water vapour can coexist under a specific conditions known as the triple point. Ice also has 17 separate phases.
8MwG TIL in most states there is no age restriction on the purchase of e-cigarettes since they aren’t technically “tobacco products.”
Xn9X TIL that Prince used Dave Chappelle’s Prince on his album cover for “Breakfast Can Wait”.
vPbj8 TIL that Apple designs and tests its product boxes so that they open at just the right speed
YRYv TIL that when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, he asked a crowd of tens of thousands to refuse greed and consumerism –to which they replied «yes», to reject the idol of power, «yes», but when he asked them to reject the idol of «sex and pleasure», the whole stadium replied an outright «NO!»