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TIL that sloths only poop once a week

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0eBy TIL Serial Killer Genene Jones, who was suspected to have murdered up to 50 children, will be released in five years, serving only a third of her sentence, due to an old Texas law.
VM0bp TIL that museum conservators do not wear white gloves when handling rare books or artwork. The only reason you see it on TV is because they get sick of people complaining that they aren't wearing gloves.
lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.
5VXnD TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people,causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given
LkKVZ TIL that 119 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt "shocked the nation" by inviting a black man to have dinner with him at the White House. That man was Booker T Washington and that dinner almost got him killed.