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TIL In America, women are sentenced to less than half the jail time as men for the same crime.

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6EPGZ TIL that Purple Passion Fruit (Passiflora incarnata) not only is used as herbal medicine. You can dry and use the leaves to make tea and can also smoke the dry leaf. Study’s shown that the extract from the plant performs as well as some benzodiazepines but with fewer side effects.
Kxk4 TIL Adam West, on 1966’s “Batman”, intentionally flubbed a line repeatedly until the studio had to use the last take where he said to Robin, “That single statement indicates to me the first oncoming thrust of manhood, old chum.”
W7YD4 TIL that In 2010, a black Nigerian couple living in London gave birth to a white, blond haired & blue eyed baby that they called 'The Miracle Baby'
0Md5 TIL that the terms “left wing” and “right wing” date back to the French Revolution in 1789
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