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TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs

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QJOke TIL about Otávio Jordão da Silva, a 20 year old Brazilian soccer/football referee who was stoned, beheaded, and quartered by spectators after he stabbed a player who punched him for making a controversial call. His head was put on a stake in the field.
KY6ew TIL that Australia has the Largest population of wild Camels.
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