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TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.

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eJk4 TIL that Benjamin Franklin enjoyed the company of older women to such an extent, he wrote a letter explaining why it he should make one his mistress. He backed his reasoning by pointing out older women couldn’t have children and that the sex could be just as good.
GYNXj TIL In Ancient Greece, prostitutes were classified into two classes; the Pornai and the Hetairai. The Pornai served many men at once, and frequently worked on the street. In contrast, Hetarai were educated, had few clients, and provided companionship and intellectual discussion as well as sex.
MMJ8 TIL orangutans can use ‘calculated reciprocity’, which involves weighing the costs and benefits of gift exchanges and keeping track of these over time
NXdEJ TIL of Zheng Pingru, a female Chinese socialite who would join the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War 2. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the local Japanese collaborationist regime, who she dated.
xVyXb TIL In four years at West Point, General Custer amassed a record-total of 726 demerits, one of the worst conduct records in the history of the academy, and finished at the bottom of his class