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TIL conservatives and liberals can be identified with 70% accuracy based on brain scans

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PD7w TIL: In Mexico City 10 squats will earn you a free subway ticket
QX6E TIL Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost
oxBR TIL that in 1917 Alexander Graham Bell predicted that “the unchecked burning of fossil fuels would have a sort of greenhouse effect” on the planet, and argued for the use of alternative energy sources such as solar energy.
Yp5YA TIL U.S. President Ronald Reagan is responsible for the drinking age being set at 21 years in 1984, prior to which many states had a lower drinking age at 18 or 20 only.
epWWD Today I learned that Jim Henson wanted to make a live-action remake of Pinocchio in 1985, but Disney rejected the idea.