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"They bite and scratch. You can't handle them without gloves and nets."
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TIL that “The Goldwater Rule” forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on somebody s/he hasn’t interviewed. It was created in response to Barry Goldwater suing Fact Magazine for $75K after publishing “1189 Psychiatrists Think Goldwater is Pyschologically Unfit to be President” in 1964.
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TIL That in the US, Chicken is washed in Chlorine. This has been banned in the EU since 1997.
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TIL that the first people to discover magnetic rocks were the Chinese. They called them “the loving stones” because the stones love metal the way parents love children
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TIL footballer Jimmy Greaves was signed for £99,999 by manager Bill Nicholson, as he didn’t want him to be saddled with the pressure of being the first £100,000 player
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TIL in 1999 a French Holocaust survivor reduced Shell Oil’s accident rate 84 percent by making oil rig workers talk about their feelings