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TIL two thirds of teenagers in the UK are atheists
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TIL that blind-from-birth men prefer female figures with the same waist-to-hip ratio (0.7) as sighted men do
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Til about the Indian Buddhist monk who went halfway across the world to meet the Roman emperor and then travelled to Athens Greece in 19BC to burn himself alive
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TIL that the Duracell Bunny promotes battery everywhere in the world, except for the USA and Canada where Energizer holds the trademarks to a "battery bunny"
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TIL That Sgt. Baker in WWII earned the Medal of Honor from a series of actions that ended with him requesting being left, propped against a tree with only a pistol and eight rounds. His body was found in the spot later, pistol empty, and eight dead Japanese lying before him.
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TIL an experiment gave mice a utopia with social roles to all, no predators and unlimited food. After population boomed reproduction gradually stopped, they became aggressive, isolated themselves and total breakdown in social structures led extinction. Researchers compared it to trends in mankind.