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TIL India is the 2nd most racially intolerant country in the world, with 43.5% of the population claiming they would refuse to live next to someone of a different race.

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Adk4 TIL Canadian Industrial band “Skinny Puppy” demanded $666,000 in royalties from the US Defense Dept. after learning that the US military used their music to torture prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
J1pk8 TIL that Electrician and Mechanic magazine had six title changes and multiple mergers, in a period of only two years. The magazine which boasted of having an exclusively male readership, eventually became Popular Science.
a1nJ TIL when Dennis Hopper’s 7-year-old son asked him why he played King Koopa in “Super Mario Brothers,” Dennis told him “So you can have shoes.” The son replied, “I don’t need shoes.”
Ajrx TIL that 96 workers died while constructing the Hoover Dam from 1931-1935
ADndx TIL about “crazy ants” that often form colonies within electrical equipment and can cause problems in all kinds of electrical systems similar to termites in wood.