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TIL that vast amount of high-paying engineering disciplines in the US are overwhelmingly dominated by men, while the not-so-lucrative humanity/social/education disciplines are very much dominated by women; this career self-selection is thought to be behind the male-female pay disparity.

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jQmM TIL that only once in history has one submarine deliberately sunk another submerged submarine
xVQXw TIL: The term coevolution is used to describe cases where two (or more) species reciprocally affect each other's evolution.
BrvKL TIL an Arizona man found a balloon with a Christmas list for Santa while out hiking. He tracked down the 8-yr-old Mexican girl who released the balloon and fulfilled her wishlist.
egnD TIL In 1962, a group of scientists wanted to study the effects of LSD on elephants. They injected an elephant with 3,000 times the normal dose given to humans because they assumed elephants would be much less sensitive to LSD than humans. The elephant died in 100 minutes.
woPZW TIL Eldey island supported the last remnant population of the great auks. Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, began collecting birds. The last pair, were killed there in 1844, when they were strangled and the last egg of the species was cracked during the struggle.