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TIL Facial disfigurements creep us out, because our subconsciousness scans the disfigurement as a potential disease.

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b6MZZ TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.
rRrGo TIL Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion
oBJPR TIL Carolyn Davidson, the designer of the iconic Nike Swoosh, was originally paid just $35 for her work. Later the company acknowledged the impact of the logo and gave her shares, now worth a million dollars.
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
rNnky TIL that during and after the Manhattan Project, the US government would inject unknowing subjects with radioactive materials to see how they reacted. Out of a likely 30 subjects, only 1 signed a consent form, which DID NOT fully explain the procedure and risks