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TIL there was a scientific study proving that internet trolls are actually horrible people

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Og8L TIL that the Automotive Crash Injury Research Center originally used corpses rather than dummies when crash-testing cars
e0QeJ TIL they tried to approve the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange on December 2016 to a Chinese Consortium out of Chicago.
LGVp TIL 45 percent of couples in Hong Kong say they have given up on the idea of having children because of crowding and high housing costs. In another survey 38% of men and 31% of women simply said they didn’t like kids
Z8NBY TIL In 1819, when King Francis visited the Pompeii exhibition there with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he had it locked away in a "secret cabinet", a gallery within the museum accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals".
X0vGD Today I learned that Alexander the Great, who conquered a good section of the world, was only 32 years old when died.