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TIL South Carolina used to sterilize women as a condition of receiving welfare.

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8PrL TIL Tuition for the year at Ivy league UPenn in 1950 was only $625, grad school $525, law school $625, med school $725. $625 is $6,055.60 in today’s dollars. Actual cost today is $45406, $29342, $54992, $52430.
ZpgyQ TIL The creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, was a feminist who lived in a polyamorous relationship with two women, and believed that women should lead the world instead of men
Oojy4 TIL that Compassion Fatigue is similar to PTSD, & Secondary Traumatic Stress
ZVNQ TIL That the gold stored in Fort Knox hasn’t been audited in over 60 years despite numerous requests, and some people believe the Fed’s gold stores may not even exist.
MenG7 TIL that for some reason Chinese media has explicitly banned the phrase “green tea bitch”