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TIL US incarceration rates exceeds the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Stalin’s Gulag system

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Wk9Xo TIL that under anti-discrimination laws, bartenders cannot legally refuse serving alcohol to pregnant women
yVMJl TIL a 2022 study showed that childhood ADHD patients consistently given stimulants were "significantly shorter than other subgroups."
9Olp TIL of Giordano Bruno. In the 16th century he proposed that our sun was just another star moving in space. The Roman Inquisition considered this as heresy and Bruno was burned at the stake.
wMjW TIL you shouldn’t brush your teeth within 60 minutes of eating a meal as your acidic oral pH makes your tooth enamel too easy to brush away
W7LnY TIL that average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's about the same as 40 school buses.