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TIL that the Torino scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. YR4 was rated as a 3 on the Torino scale, with a 1-in-42 (2.4%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032.

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Ejkd TIL meth is so common in North Korea that suited elites in Pyongyang restaurants offer each other a “nose” after dinner, the middle classes take it as a cold cure or remedy for back pain, and the poor take it to ease the emptiness in their stomach.
wLE78 TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.
wLWdY TIL of guevedoces--genetic males in a small community in the Dominican Republic that are born with a vagina instead of a penis. At puberty, the vagina fuses into a fully-functioning penis and scrotum.
E1jV TIL When Julius Caesar was captured and held hostage by pirates, he told them he would crucify them all personally. The pirates took it as a joke, but when the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, captured the pirates, and crucified them.
rAny TIL that resumes with White sounding names (e.g. Emily and Brendan) elicit 50% more callbacks than resumes with African American sounding names (e.g. Lakisha and Jamal). This discrimination persists even when resumes with African American names list more credentials than resumes with White names.