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TIL Mississippi has the highest rate of STDs in America
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TIL Hedy Lamarr, an actress in the 40’s and 50’s and “the most beautiful woman in the world”, co-patented the technology that would lead to Wi-Fi, GPS, wireless phones, and others.
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TIL In a dark location, many galaxies beyond the Milky Way can be seen through a telescope with aperture of 3.1 inches. But from a suburban backyard, the telescope needs to be 6 to 8 inches to view these same galaxies
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TIL in 2013, Costa Rica announced it would close all its zoos, effective March 2014, and free animals either to the wild or to safe “retirement” shelters. Officials say this is a response to “a change of environmental conscience among Costa Ricans”
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TIL about the White Revolution, a sweeping -- and mostly successful -- program to modernize Iran. One element of it ended feudalism and gave farms to the farmers, but many of them ended up worse off than they were under feudalism. This caused a domino effect that led to the Islamic Revolution.
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TIL that Arschgeweih, the German word for tramp stamp, literally translates to “ass antlers”.