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Today I learned, you can legally call gay hair dressers “faggots” in France!

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N7gNb TIL of the “asshole” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “asshole”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men who shrugged it off.
x6l9o TIL Australia doesn't use the solstices and equinoxes to define the seasons, instead it's weather based and each season is 3 full months. Summer is Dec 1 to Feb 28.
noZo TIL Penn Jillette had skin growing inside his skull. He and Teller decide to shoot a magic trick during the surgery. Since Penn’s a teetotaler, he couldn’t get the full anesthetic and remain conscious for the trick. As a result his pain made the footage so disturbing it was unusable.
v1pyr TIL San Martín's Square in Lima has a statue of a woman wearing a llama on her head because the sculptor was told to give her a crown of flames (llamas in Spanish), and he misunderstood the order.
OvL1 TIL of Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot,meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.