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TIL making girls play video games improves their spatial intelligence to match boys

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b49N TIL That in Canada, it is illegal for corporations and unions to make donations to political parties. And individuals cannot donate more than $5,000 per year.
GYrEN TIL: The man behind "Wood on the bed" meme was a deacon, minor league football player, and died of a heart attack over 6 years ago
E1rw0 TIL the rendering of the Death Star plans in the original Star Wars was created by two students using computers at JPL. The writers and staff planned to thank JPL in the credits, until one programmer pointed out that JPL didn't even know their computers had been used.
v1DEB TIL the Amundsen-Scott station at the geographic South Pole has a basketball court, gym, music room, craft room, library, sauna, and two TV/movie lounges.
8e91X TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi for thousands of years (3.5x larger than Lake Tahoe), resided in California's Central Valley before it all but completely disappeared in the late 19th Century primarily due to agriculture.