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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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nW5Zr TIL of the Giant GRB Ring which is a ring of 9 gamma-ray bursts. It is 5.6 BILLION light years across.
eWbn TIL The founder of Mormonism practiced polygamy and polyandry and one of his wives was 14 years old when he married her.
8aaEV TIL: Some people taste soap when they eat Cilantro.
VpBQ TIL that American speech is punctuated with “uh” & “um”, English speech with “er” & “erm”, Japanese with “ā”, “anō”, & “ēto”, German with “äh”, French with “euh”– basically, every language uses different sounds to interrupt themselves while their brain is working on forming thoughts into words.
vPeKK TIL about Onfim, a small boy from Novogorod who lived in the 13th century. Some of his writing exercises and drawings have survived on 17 separate pieces of birch bark. He drew horses and knights and messages to his friends. Nothing else is known of his life or his fate.