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TIL men receive sentences that are 63 percent higher, on average, than their female counterparts for the same crime.

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Wk6Y4 TIL that US government spent 900 milion $ for Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques that proved to be fruitless and had no scientific background
6EYYm TIL Northern Hemisphere rainwater still contains 3x as much radioactive tritium than Southern Hemisphere rainwater due to atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the 1960s
vPKrr TIL that coconut is also a seed
XEbQ TIL if the spectrum of sunlight was more evenly distributed, the sky would be purple
OoaAg TIL that in languages where spelling is highly phonetic (e.g. Italian) often lack an equivalent verb for "to spell". To clarify, one will often ask "how is it written?" and the response will be a careful pronunciation of the word, since this is sufficient to spell it.