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TIL anthropologists consider society’s reaction to human sex trafficking to be a “moral panic,” with inflated data points and well-publicized “horror stories” that have little basis in reality.

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9ePm TIL that U.S. President James Garfield’s great-great-grandson is the creator of Magic: The Gathering
AJ4w TIL that 20% of the genetic material in a typical human nasal swab is biological dark matter that cannot be attributed to any of the existing categories of living organisms on Earth (bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes)
X77k TIL the scientist who developed the vaccine to fight leprosy is about to reach his 100th birthday and is still working to find a vaccine for cancer
wLedM TIL Chicagoan Corey Taylor was so frustrated with his Verizon cellphone service that he faked his own death to get out of his contract without paying $175.
PYQbV TIL even animals like jellyfish that lack brains need to snooze. Biologists have discovered that like people, jellyfish hit the hay & have the same trouble we do waking up. Because these creatures are very low on the animal family tree, the work suggests that the ability to sleep evolved quite early