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TIL that one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.

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1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
Z8DDQ TIL Isaac Newton developed nearly all his best-known theories during an impromptu "gap year," while Cambridge University was closed due to plague.
kOAy7 TIL that when Kiefer Sutherland found out about a "24" drinking game where you drink every time he says "damn it," he decided to play along and started saying the phrase as many times as he could in an episode.
a8DKb TIL Exposure to neighborhood violence has also been found to prospectively predict high levels of peer-rated aggression for children living in impoverished communities
Y7MoP TIL The total solar eclipse of April 9, 2043 is very unusual in that it is "Non-Central" and does not have a central line nor a northern path limit. Instead , over half of the umbral shadow falls off into space throughout the eclipse