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TIL that Algerian women make up 70% of their lawyers, 60% of their judges, 65% of their university students and usually bring in more household income than their husbands.

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looa5 TIL that there may have been a European settlement in South America prior to the arrival of Columbus.
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.
a8AXM Til that prior to becoming President, Gerald Ford called for a thorough investigation of UFO sightings in Michigan and was critical of the multiple claims being dismissed as originating from "swamp gas"
d8A57 TIL that one of the few coastal areas to evacuate ahead of the 2004 tsunami was on the island of Simeulue. Due to island folklore recounting an earthquake/tsunami in 1907, the islanders fled inland following the initial shaking. Generational folklore saving the lives of the islanders 97 years later.