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TIL the American pint is 95ml smaller than the British pint

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R0Z7 TIL that the United States is one of only three countries (along with Somalia and South Sudan) that have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Bv7y TIL The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, prevented commercial banks from trading securities with their clients’ deposits. The act eventually repealed during the Clinton Administration with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which in turn caused the 2008 financial crisis
x6VLB TIL of the 2000 year old Fayum mummy portraits that depicted deceased individuals in near realist style portraits.
1QV8 TIL that when Uwe Boll tried to obtain filming rights for a World of Warcraft movie Blizzard said “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you.”
mx5YR TIL Rosalind Franklin is the unsung hero of DNA research. Her X-ray Crystallography allowed her colleagues Watson and Crick to accurately characterize the double helix. Many believe she should’ve shared in their Nobel prize.