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TIL David Bowie's eyes were both blue. One pupil was just permanently dilated (anisocoria).

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GYdpN TIL US Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin wanted the US to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. He gave a speech on the need to ratify it each day the Senate was in session from 1967-1986 (a total of 3,211 times) until the US Senate finally ratified it on Feb. 11th, 1986 in an 83-11 vote.
E1Bno TIL about the Peak-End Rule – a cognitive bias whereby we tend to judge and remember an experience/event on the basis of how we felt at its 'peaks' (intense positive or negative moments) and at its 'end' (the final moments) rather than the sum total of all the moments of the experience/event.
xV8b TIL that the Catholic church used to allow priests to be married and that there were even several married popes
Gv5g TIL: When George Washington first ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses, he supplied 164 gallons of of alcohol to only 396 voters so they would like him. Washington won.
84BP TIL that between the 1630s and the American Revolution, one-half to two-thirds of white immigrants to the American colonies arrived under a voluntary (yet temporary) form of slavery, in which they typically received no wages, and some rights, such as the right to marry, were restricted.