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TIL that Terrence Howard believes 1x1 is really 2 because he uses a type of logic he made up (and patented), while spending hours everyday making models out of plastic and wire which supposedly help prove his theories

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4Xg6R TIL About “Banned in Boston” where Bostonian Puritans would ban a movie/play/book/artwork and thus add immeasurably to it’s value everywhere else - as it was now officially salacious and forbidden
VRY8 TIL that only Somalia, South Sudan, and the US have not signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
wLBa6 TIL eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruss, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have that origin.
xV7n1 TIL about the Hillsborough disaster, a tragedy when over thousands of soccer attendees flooded the standing pens so much that 96 people were killed by the stampede.
b9JjN TIL the saying "Kill them all; let God sort them out." originates from the instructions given by a Papal representative to the crusaders just before the The Massacre at Béziers where all 20,000 citizens were killed. The original Latin instructions: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.