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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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wogwM TIL that art depicting living beings is generally prohibited in Islam. As a result Islamic art generally consists of calligraphic, geometric and abstract floral patterns
wo8wJ TIL crocodiles can gallop like a horse
Lk1ZQ TIL the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon tapes was not one gap, but five to nine separate erasures. The tape is preserved in the National Archives in the hope we may someday recover what was erased.
m1wmo TIL that The Pig War of 1859 was a territorial dispute that occurred between the United States and the United Kingdom on San Juan Island. One pig was the only casualty with the German Empire arbitrating the dispute.
EjwP TIL after a Soviet doctor in Antarctica had to remove his own appendix, all Austrialian doctors must have theirs removed before allowed to stay there.