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TIL: Female students in China outperform men to such an extent that some universities have introduced a “male quota.”

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6gMQ TIL that the solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long.
Oj51 TIL that an arm of the Republican Party got “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed.
woZjM TIL the Dalai Lama carries a high-end Swiss pocket watch, which was a gift sent to him by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943.
1pxr TIL that a man was mauled by a bear, partially buried by friends then woke up and hiked like 200 miles back to camp and survived.
9YBoG TIL that of the 3,500 snakes in the world, only 600 of them are venomous. Happy World Snake Day ????