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TIL: Male Jurors are more likely to find fat women guilty

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j6MQv TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades
69MAw TIL that the oldest known toy is a set of dice found in ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to around 2800 BCE. They were used for games similar to those played with dice today.
LLxp TIL a mycologist named Paul Stamets argues mushrooms will revolutionize our way of life by using the mycelium fungus to clean polluted soil, make insecticides, treat smallpox and even flu viruses.
X0rlE TIL in 1966, thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria were massacred in a pogrom. So the Igbo people seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and formed the independent nation of Biafra, resulting in the Nigerian government deliberately starving millions of people in Biafra to death
Apan TIL that in season 4 episode 2 of Breaking Bad, Badger explains that Venezia’s Pizza doesn’t slice their pizzas “to pass the savings on to you.” This was a response to fan confusion over why the Venezia’s pizza in season 3 episode 2 was not sliced