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TIL Jon Stewart and his wife founded an animal sanctuary in New Jersey to rescue abused factory farm animals

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KOx0J TIL - professional cutmen in professional fighting make upwards of 15% of the fighters purse and many are worth millions.
OKrY TIL Washing dishes by hand uses almost 7 times the amount of water as a modern dishwasher (103L vs. 15L for a full load). Also, it takes an average of 15 minutes to load and unload a dishwasher vs. 82 minutes to hand wash and dry a full load. Half the overall energy use too for using a dishwasher.
LEOm TIL: a study showed that Harry Potter fans “tend be more open to diversity; politically tolerant; less authoritarian; less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture; more politically active; and are more likely to have a negative view of the Bush administration.”
8ageG TIL in the 1950s there was a past-life and hypnosis craze in the U.S. that started when a hypnotized housewife began randomly speaking in an Irish brogue.
4XgGJ TIL that in Zurich, the garbage disposal is financed by selling official plastic bags for non-recyclable waste. Garbage trucks will not even pick up unofficial bags from houses and they instead have to be placed in designated neighbourhood containers.