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TIL the NCAA didn't recognize women's college sports until 1982 and still doesn't recognize records set or championships won under the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which organized US women's college athletics from 1971-1982

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PrZE TIL Dr. Soren Sorensen developed the pH scale in order to test the acidity of beer to ultimately make better beer.
nWJWo TIL written Japanese uses three different types of characters: hiragana (a syllabary), katana (ANOTHER syllabary), and kanji (Chinese characters).
YlOA TIL- The US actually has a shortage of qualified workers, not jobs.
l7xLG TIL: Saad Abe was a famous Geisha, who after 2+ hours of intimacy and erotic choking, killed her lover, cut off his penis and balls and began carrying them around until her arrest and practiced necrophilia as she stated she loved him. The judge in the case admitted to being aroused by the story.
0goy TIL back in 2011 NYC cops were acquitted of raping a drunk woman despite medical evidence corroborating her story, eyewitnesses the cops lied to, a fake 911 call by the cops trying to cover up the incident, and a taped admission by the cop that he had sex with the victim.