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TIL Dave Chappelle’s maternal grandfather was a blind Caucasian who was raised to believe that he was African-American. Mirroring his famous white supremacist skit.

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yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.
KO16J TIL that Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), still utilized today, allows for improvements in depression in 70-90% of the patients treated with it, much higher than that of psychopharmacology.
v5AL TIL that the day after Thanksgiving isn’t referred to as “Black Friday” because of the profits seen by retailers, but was originally coined by traffic cops in Philadelphia to describe the disastrous traffic conditions
y8VM TIL that in 1934 a 5,000 lb. manta ray was caught. Unusally large specimens are 3,000 lbs.
0wDAN TIL that the yapok is the only marsupial where both genders have a pouch. They are semi-aquatic. Females can make theirs watertight to protect young. Males store their testes in them when swimming to protect them from becoming tangled in vegetation