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TIL a woman was once fined and faced jail time for reporting her rape. The cops did not believe her until her rapist was caught raping another woman and had pictures of him raping the earlier victim

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e0Nlk TIL Joya de Cerén in El Salvador is a pre-hispanic farming village that was covered by a volcanic eruption in the seventh century AD, similar to Pompeii.
v1MNj TIL about slip coaches, which was part of the British rail service that offered passengers rides to smaller, less serviced stations. It would work by allowing the slip coach to detach from the train while it was moving at speed and would then drift into the station to allow passengers to disembark.
v1nk4 TIL the world's first self-replicating synthetic organism also contains brainteasers written into its genetic code. Hidden inside its DNA are the names of its creators and famous quotes by James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Richard Feynman. There is also a URL address for those who crack the code.
D1M9P TIL Lincoln University in Pennsylvania became the first degree-granting institution of higher education for African Americans. It paved the way for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
ANOjx Today I learned that the Goosebumps series of novels was originally aimed at girls.