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TIL There is a subculture in Congo where members dress up like gentlemen.

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w8jY TIL Shaq once promised his mother he would earn a college degree. He fulfilled that promise in 2000, earning his bachelor of arts in general studies. At the graduation ceremony, he told the crowd “now I can go and get a real job”.
ejak TIL that the US uses less water now than it did in 1970
xVjLD TIL that higher IQ is associated with greater use of illegal drugs and excessive alcohol intake
lovE7 TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.
xeQ7 TIL: That smacking a piece of equipment to make it work sometimes has a scientific basis due to “dithering.”