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TIL that under Islamic Sharia law a raped woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of her rapist

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Ord4 TIL that in Japan students don’t take exams until 4th grade.
4kaMo TIL that a herbert box is a region of the tropical Atlantic Ocean that can be used as an indicator for powerful hurricanes that may strike south Florida. Storms that have passed through a herbert box have collectively killed over 5,000 people
xVrK5 TIL of the E/I or educational and informative standards that regulate the content of network television programming aimed at a youth audience, forcing networks to drop the classic Saturday morning cartoons.
wLmJE TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
87pK TIL Some of competitors at the first modern Olympic games (1896) were tourists who happened to be in Athens.