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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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Z8wVD TIL that the Danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even Danish children have trouble understanding it, learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.
XxgE TIL Saab in 1992 made a prototype vehicle dubbed “Prometheus” that had no steering wheel. Instead, to steer it, the driver had an aircraft like joystick. It greatly increased safety, space and aesthetics. The production model would have had two Joysticks, one for each arm / hand.
QNj8a TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's Russian-born widow still lives in the US (she's been a naturalized citizen since 1989). She has 3 kids (2 daughters with Oswald, 1 son with 2nd husband) and still advocates the theory that Oswald was innocent.
geAb TIL that Target Canada was so poorly planned that Canadian consumers would continue to cross the border and shop at Target stores in the United States.
nb17 TIL there is a thing called “Keeping up with the Kattarshians” which is a popular show in Iceland that shows a 24/hr live feed of cats inside a miniature house