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TIL that 37% of Brits believe their jobs are meaningless.
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TIL shooting free throws in basketball underhanded, or “granny style,” is statistically more effective, but players don’t do it because it doesn’t look cool.
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TIL that during the University of Texas Tower Shooting in 1966, several frat boys and hunting enthusiasts rushed to their homes and trucks to get their rifles. Officers told them to shoot to kill.
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TIL - When Jacques Charles flew the first hydrogen balloon in 1783, it was destroyed by terrified peasants when it landed as it was only the second ever balloon flight.
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TIL only 40% of Amish people use refrigerators but 97% of them use washing machines.
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TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.