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TIL: Up until 1993, women were excluded from clinical research and trials.

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WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.
N77M6 TIL: You’re not safe from spiders even in the water; There is a spider that hunts and lives under water. It traps air bubbles to breathe from while it dives for food.
VvO8 TIL that ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has a 5-octave and 5 notes vocal range, which is bigger than that of Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose and Mariah Carey
v1Avr TIL of Francis Crowley, whose crime spree lasted nearly three months, ending in a two-hour shootout. In prison he was known to stuff his uniform down the toilet, set fire to his bed, and craft homemade weapons. He was executed in the electric chair, at the age of 19.
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme