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TIL Kitchen sponges are dirty than a toilet seat

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KY9lE TIL that California black acorns were used by California native Americans as a staple food.
jNgdN TIL the use of phrenology was largely responsible for the racial divide that resulted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide which killed over 1 million people
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.”
LQLVV TIL there is still one K-Mart left in America.
yQN08 TIL that World War II naval minefields still exist to this day because the minefields are too extensive and costly to remove. It is possible that these 1940s era mines can remain just as deadly as the day they were laid for years to come.