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TIL US men work on average a half hour longer then women per day

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adXM TIL a man once tattooed “Netflix” on his body and after tweeting a picture to the company he received a free year of service.
wLgA7 TIL Last year, researchers in the US and UK found that countries with an existing culture of gender equality have an even smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology and mathematics (STEM).
woJAJ TIL that Liberia was founded by U.S. citizens as a colony for freed African American slaves and their free black descendants.
MeDkb TIL about Juneteenth: an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans throughout the former Confederate States of America.
V4wm TIL there used to be an “Office of Technology Assessment” in charge of providing Congress with unbiased analysis of scientific issues, but it was closed down as part of the Republicans’ “Contract With America in 1995.