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TIL Wealth matters more than ability to succeed in school

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grmpb TIL that Jennifer Pan, under intense pressure to succeed, deceived her parents for over a decade, leading them to believe she was a successful pharmacist, despite not graduating high school. When her lies unraveled, she arranged for her parents' murder.
9Y7ED TIL California was named after a mythical island of black women who kept man-eating griffins as pets
xVlA5 TIL possession of child pornography in Japan currently carries a penalty of up to one year in jail OR a $9,800 fine. The law was enacted in 2015.
X066X TIL about the Ben Franklin Effect: The psychological phenomenon where doing someone a favor makes you like them more. It's named after Benjamin Franklin, who once asked a rival legislator to lend him a rare book, leading to a friendship.
Re57 TIL there were so many overdubs during the recording of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that the magnetic tape used to record the song became virtually transparent.