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TIL that an experiment called the “Monster Study” was conducted on 22 orphans in Iowa. In it, half of the kids consistently were teased for stuttering and developed speech problems even when they were normal before the experiment.

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Zpd94 TIL about the Ka'u desert, a desert in the big island of Hawaii, that was created by the acid rains of the eruptions of the mount Kilauea. Is the only insular desert of the USA
MW7W TIL that during the French Revolution, radicals tried to introduce two competing religions to replace Christianity: the atheist Cult of Reason and the deist Cult of the Supreme Being.
LLg9 TIL calorie counts in food labels are based on 19th century research, that has been dismissed since, as being vague approximations that don’t project the truth that the calories we get change considerably depending on the structure of the food, how it is processed, and the physiology of the eater
LNeV TIL this year is the only year Hanukkah will EVER land on Thanksgiving… at least until the year 79,811.
daR9 TIL Snoop Lion’s son is one of the top high school American football prospects in the country.