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TIL In 1889 Wyoming became the first state to let women vote, largely because they were short of women and were hoping to attract more

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Lkmr TIL that Guilin Merryland Resort, a theme park in China, offers half-off admission to women who wear skirts that are 15 inches or shorter.
4XXaa TIL that J.R.R Tolkien got the name for Samwise Gamgee from a doctor called Joseph Sampson Gamgee, the inventor of the 'Gamgee tissue', an absorbent gauze surgical dressing made from cotton wool. Hence, Tolkien named Samwise's wife in The Lord of the Rings books Rosie Cotton.
m14DO TIL Croissants and Baguettes are not actually French, their origins are actually Viennese. (Austrian)
5YZ9Q TIL that there is a star called "UY Scuti" with a diameter 1,700 times larger than that of the Sun's. It's so big that if placed at the center of our solar system its surface would reach past the the orbit of Jupiter and it would take a commercial airliner over 1,000 years to fly around it.
bOXN TIL that in ancient Rome the only women who wore togas were the prostitutes and they were required to do so