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TIL in the U.S., women didn’t have the right to open their own bank account until 1974

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rMvo TIL 20 year old Ryan Holle was sentenced to life without parole for lending his car to a friend, who then murdered an 18 year old girl.
OGEXR TIL about "Cemetery Island" (old Newburg Cemetery) in Kentucky Lake, a strip of land that's only visible when the water is low. It has a grave marker from 1907 that's regularly toppled by boats when the water is high in the summer and has to be propped back up in the winter.
pAxO TIL A man claimed an unclaimed 7 km2 piece of land between Serbia and Croatia as his own country and got approval from both countries. He called it “The Free Republic of Liberland”.
GAog1 TIL that Jackie Wilson always kissed the least attractive girl in the audience. He believed that by doing so, everyone would think they could have him and keep coming back to buy his records.
RYaa TIL the Bechdel test that asks if there are two female characters who talk about something other than a man was originally meant as a lesbian joke