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TIL: Between 1940 and 1970 Harvard and Yale took nude photos of incoming freshmen

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7raP TIL That Israel actually calculates a daily allowed caloric intake for the Palestinians in Gaza.
9YZm TIL that Gila Monsters don’t inject their venom but chew vigorously to stimulate the flow of venom from their teeth into the victim
pANG TIL in ‘Avengers’ Loki called Black Widow a “Mewling Quim”. The rough translation is “Whiny Cunt”.
KYEja TIL among the official HTTP client error response codes (like "404: Not Found"), status code "418: I'm a teapot" is the code used to indicate that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.
Br4yW TIL: The amount of wood that a Woodchuck could chuck if Woodchucks did chuck wood is about 317 kg (700 pounds for you non-metric heathens)