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TIL that being able to roll your tongue is NOT a genetic trait

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BrYox TIL in Europe between 1550 and 1700 over 80,000 people were tried for witchcraft and half were executed - often burned alive. Data shows it was most intense where Catholic-Protestant rivalry was strongest and the phenomenon reached its zenith when there was “peak competition for Christian consumers"
EgMrx TIL: A study of autopsy results found the mean age of death for tattooed persons was 39 years, compared with 53 years for non-tattooed persons. The presence of any tattoo was more significant than the content of the tattoo.
QNGbE TIL Curtis Armstrong who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, also voiced Snot in American Dad.
ZZ0Y TIL there’s a town in Ontario called “Swastika”. There have been several attempts to change the name but the town fights back saying “To hell with Hitler. We had the swastika first”.
060A TIL - After the end of WW II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. These countries did not know that the machine had been broken, their supposedly secure communications were being read regularly by the major Western intelligence agencies