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TIL Some "grammar-nazis" are actually mentally ill. It's called Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.

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x96b TIL that in China, 40% of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58% of the engineering workforce.
kvb1 TIL Richard Nixon once asked a man at Ghana’s Independence Day celebration “How does it feel to be free? The man answered: "How should I know?” “I come from Alabama.”
7X9p TIL although the NFL is 60% black, the top 33 scorers of all time are white (because they are kickers)
kJole TIL in the 1980s Monty Python got much of its exposure to the US through PBS, because of CBS censoring parts of "The Holy Grail" in a 1977 broadcast. This upset the comedy troupe, prompting them to withdraw the broadcast rights.
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.