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TIL that John Steinbeck once said of the Model T Ford: “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than about the clitoris”

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kloB TIL human rights groups intend to deliver copies of “The Interview” to North Korea via air balloon. Previous “air balloon” campaigns have included dropping USB drives containing biographies of Gandhi and MLK Jr. in Korean.
xNjg TIL Password length is much more important than complexity. “Sh@+ner……….” is stronger than “@(ASf09}}]~!R”
v1y0L TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment, the infamous experiment that many psychological works reference, was actually mostly a fraud and that many of the participants were faking.
AD7YB TIL there’s an herb named culantro, not to be confused with cilantro, that is related to parsley and cilantro/coriander. It is native to Mexico and Central & South America, but is used throughout the world for its culinary & medicinal properties, and is said to taste like a stronger cilantro.
rLo1 TIL White supremacist and racist Craig Cobb said he would take a genetic test, and receive the results on live television. He was found to be 14% Sub- Saharan African.