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TIL about anti-natalism, the philosophical position that assigns negative value to birth. Anti-natalists argue that bringing a person into an existence in which they will undoubtedly experience pain and/or discouragement is inherently morally wrong and selfish.

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NX41Q TIL Julius Caesar was the first to declare Jan 01 a national holiday. He named the month after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gates. Janus had two faces, one looking forward and one looking back
4X76b TIL Helen Keller was a librarian at public and college libraries including Drexel Institute and Columbia University and authored The Reader's Digest of Books.
8a5lb TIL there used to be a sport called Ferret-legging, where a ferret is trapped in a contestant’s pants, while not wearing underwear.
4AYo TIL that a Florida police officer arrested a man for “trafficking cocaine”, claiming that he tested it on the scene. The man spent 8 months in jail before it was tested in a lab and determined to be baking soda.
X0eDr TIL only 20% of Texas prisons have Air Conditioning. Temps are said to regularly reach 110°+ inside cell blocks during the summer.