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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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Ypvav TIL that coastal rubber boas are native to southwestern Canada and the northwestern US. They are considered the most docile of boa species and are often used to help people overcome their fear of snakes. There are no reports of rubber boas ever biting a human under any circumstance.
QNGxX TIL About 500,000 to 1,000,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans were forcibly/"voluntarily" deported back to Mexico from the US from 1929 to 1939, after the US administration scapegoated Mexicans for the Great Depression. 40 to 60% of those were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children.
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.
0wWO5 TIL in 1970 Jimmy Carter allowed a convicted murderer to work at the Governors Mansion under a work release program as a maid and later as his daughters nanny. He later volunteered as her parole officer and had her continue working for his family at the White House. She was later exonerated.
OGEGY TIL that in 2020 the Smithsonian published an article claiming that things like individualism, planning for the future, avoiding conflict, and being polite were all aspects of "white culture"