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TIL In South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife.

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KYw9E TIL that 17th century Catholic scholars thought it possible that Jesus's detached foreskin ascended to Heaven and became the rings of Saturn.
R7Yn1 TIL that there's an actual term for the act of using scientific sounding facts to trick people into a false conclusion or belief. It was dubbed "Zohnerism" after a student called Nathan Zohner tricked 86% of his school's 9th graders into wanting to ban "dihydrogen monoxide" (water)
e6yb TIL that Leonardo da Vinci often purchased caged birds so that he could set them free immediately.
xVWlk TIL that in 2013 a Brazilian ref and player got into a fight over a red card. The ref drew a knife and fatally stabbed the player, and in response, the crowd beheaded the ref and mounted his head on a pike in the field.
Dm0e TIL that prairie dogs have such a complex means of communication that they can embed descriptions of predators within their calls, and even have a specific call to describe a man with a gun.