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TIL Funerals Can Make Humans Surprisingly Horny

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wL0X1 TIL that the Ethiopia uses the Coptic Calendar which is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar, meaning it is currently 2012.
rn8M TIL directly after JFK was assassinated, his wife Jackie refused to remove her blood-stained clothes or have the blood washed from her face and hands. She continued like this aboard Air Force 1 during LBJ’s oath-of-office, telling Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what they have done…”
OkpX TIL a voting system exists that lets you select candidates in order of preference. Votes “roll over” from a losing candidate to the next preferred. This “political average” overcomes flaws of single-ballot voting.
YppP7 TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.
RlRa TIL The Koch Bros. funded a hand picked climate study they hoped would finally disprove man made climate change. It proved the opposite, with study leader having ‘total turnaround’ on the issue.