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TIL when the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.

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xZKo TIL that if space wasn’t soundproof, we would hear the Sun burning at over 100 decibels, or as loud as a chainsaw from 5 meters away.
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RVAQ TIL The founder of “5-Hour-Energy”, Manoj Bhargava, is the richest Indian man in the U.S. and gives 90% of his earnings to charity.
eDbk TIL that a chimpanzee Washoe, the first animal to learn American Sign Language, was able to combine the hundreds of signs that she learned into novel combinations that she hadn’t been taught and created herself. She also taught her adopted son some American Sign Language.
4Jba TIL a study in Australia found that using roundabouts instead of stop signs/signals resulted in a 75 percent reduction in injury collisions, a 90 percent reduction in fatality collisions, and when long term costs were considered cost around the same.