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TIL that Superman helped to stop the KKK from growing power in the south, in a 16 part series titled “Clan of the Fiery Cross." Within two weeks of the broadcast, KKK recruitment was down to zero. And by 1948, people were showing up to Klan rallies just to mock them.

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dnpB TIL That spanking children makes them more defiant and more likely to develop mental issues later in life. The study in question involved 160,000 children over 50 years
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OG0wX TIL there was a false belief in Europe starting in the 13th Century that Jewish males experience periodic bleeding through nosebleeds, urination or hemorrhoids bleeding similarly to women having their periods.
5Qwk TIL Steven Seagal thought nobody could choke him out, and didn’t respect grappling. So Gene leBell (now 80, the man who taught Bruce Lee grappling), choked him completely unconscious, causing Seagal to soil his pants.
XEMOD TIL: there are an estimated 200 bodies on MT Everest that hikers use as markers on their journey up the beast of a mountain, including a corpse named “green boots”.