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TIL a Study Suggests That Mormons Can Be Picked Out From Other People By Sight Alone

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VBMMk TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment was ended because the principle researcher's girlfriend, a psychologist in her own right, observed the experiment and told him it was wrong and that she didn't like him because of it--not because he determined of his own accord that it was unethical
5Y6xR TIL kids in Japan play more violent video games than American kids do yet are less aggressive.
j6Xop TIL the first successful C-section (where both the baby and mother survived) was performed in 1500 in Switzerland by a sow gelder named Jakob Nufer on his wife, who went on to have five more children after.
69Xkm TIL expiration date doesn't mean the food/product will be spoiled/dangerous to use, it's just used to indicate peak freshness
p8DNG TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.