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TIL Russia firstly offered Alaska to Liechtenstein before they offered it to the US

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M7OJK TIL: Fossil fuels such as oil do not come from dinosaurs
NMWe TIL that 50% of domestic violence is reciprocal. 53% of nonreciprocal domestic violence is committed against men. 71% of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women.
Y7Zyd TIL In Finland, cab drivers are required by law to pay royalty fees for songs played on their taxi radio while working & conveying paying passengers. The reason being, cabbies use music for commerce while making a profit. A fixed sum is to be paid to the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society annually
dvpd TIL in 1994, American Michael Fay was sentenced to caning in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Caning is a routine sentence in Singapore, but its unfamiliarity to Americans created a backlash. The number of strokes in Fay’s sentence was reduced from 6 to 4 after U.S. officials requested leniency
VMeRB TIL that Julia Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman architect licensed in California. She became William Randolph Hearst's principal architect, working on Hearst Castle from 1919 to 1947.