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TIL men receive 63% longer sentences on average/women are twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted

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v8lL TIL: Despite implications to the contrary, the USA spends more money on education, per student, than any other country in the world. Funding isn’t the problem in the US
4XyNg TIL The oubliette of Leap Castle in Ireland was discovered to have had over 150 skeletons and may have been in use as recently as the mid-1800s.
rL7y TIL on March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
EABx TIL bald eagles and red tail hawks are “mortal enemies” and will even attempt to feed the other species’ offspring to their own young
mxpAM TIL: the Iranian word for ostrich is "shotor morgh" which translates to "camel chicken"