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TIL More than 85% of residents of the United States believe they are less biased than the average American.

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yVOkv TIL Jehovah's Witnesses will die over accepting blood transfusions due to religious reasons.
Lk7Pp Today I learned that,Jack Daniels died of sepsis in Lynchburg on October 9, 1911. The infection began in one of his toes, which Daniel injured one morning at work by kicking his safe in anger when he could not get it opened. (It was rumored that he would often times forget the safe combination.)
7enZ TIL that Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers, would clean his pool for hours without knowing his Secret Service agents were replenishing the leaves in the pool
m1YvM TIL in Ancient Rome sometimes the seller of a female slave attached a ne serva clause to the ownership papers to prevent her from being prostituted. The ne serva clause meant that if the new owner or any owner afterwards used the slave as a prostitute she would be free.
E1a7P TIL When Stan Lee first introduced Spider-Man the publisher turned him down. Stan Lee didn't give up and snuck Spider-Man in to the last issue of the shuttered series Amazing Fantasy which went on to become a success.