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Jul 22, 2020

TIL that Smarter women are less likely to have kids, maternal urges drop by 25% with every extra 15 IQ points.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL: Two teenagers girls seduced and hunted Nazi's like "Dexter"

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Jun 02, 2020

TIL most of the consumer standards like car seatbelt length, AC temperature sensitivities, phone sizes, crash-test dummies etc. are all dimensioned with reference to average men size. Due to this a woman involved in a car crash is 47% more likely to be seriously injured and 17% more likely to die.

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May 04, 2020

TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.

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Mar 21, 2020

TIL about Jessie Knight: Britain's 1st female tattoo artist. She was also a star circus sharpshooter who shot her abusive ex-husband.

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL Oxford University research shows that women's periods do not synchronise when they spend time together - as commonly claimed. Nevertheless, the myth continues to endure.

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Jan 05, 2020

TIL that some women who meet their boyfriend/husband while on birth control find that they’re no longer sexually attracted to him once they quit birth control in order to start a family.

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Nov 23, 2019

TIL smoking is more likely to cause bladder cancer than lung cancer and that is due to all toxins ending up down there before being flushed down the toilet.

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Nov 13, 2019

TIL Queen Elizabeth employs a small-footed person whose only job is to wear the Queen's new shoes, in order to break them in.

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Nov 05, 2019

TIL Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire, among other things, became empress by winning a beauty contest, after her husband died became the first empress to rule in her own right in Byzantine History, and blinded her own son in order to retain power.

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Oct 25, 2019

TIL Suffragettes were not entirely peaceful. After police beat female protestors on Black Friday, killing two, women started carrying guns and firebombing homes.

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Sep 23, 2019

TIL of an all-female Anti-Poaching Unit in South Africa called Black Mambas. They reduced the number of incidents of snaring and poaching by as much as 76 percent

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Sep 20, 2019

TIL Killer whales go through menopause to avoid competition with daughters. This may shed light on why menopause exists at all.

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Aug 08, 2019

TIL that the Library of Congress is actively seeking volunteers to help transcribe 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents to create a searchable database where people can read original source documents.

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Jul 21, 2019

TIL Humans are psychologically hardwired to blame the victim. The “just-world bias” happens because our brains crave predictability, and as such, we tend to blame victims of unfairness rather than reject the comforting worldview suggesting that good will be rewarded and evil punished.

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Jul 15, 2019

TIL That women are better at discerning shades of colours, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to a hunter-gatherer past.

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Jun 19, 2019

TIL about the Indian skin trade in which “poor women are being trafficked and duped into selling their skin to be used for penis and breast enlargements in the global cosmetic surgery market” (Reuters)

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Apr 12, 2019

TIL of Ranulf de Broc, a courtier under King Henry II of England, who was responsible for regulating prostitution and held the title of “Marshal of the Whores of the Royal Household”

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Apr 06, 2019

TIL that pyjamas (pajamas in the US) became fashionable because of World War I zeppelin air raids on Britain. Thrust into the evening due to an air raid, pyjamas were more practical and fashionable than night dresses, and coincided with the "new novelty" of women wearing trousers.

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