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TIL the terms 'well-rounded', 'high-brow', 'low-brow' and 'shrink' actually come from phrenology and scientific racism.

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Z8eoB TIL that in 2014, a high school student was suspended for two months for jokingly replying "Actually, yeah" to an internet post that asked if he made out with a teacher. He sued the school board for being unjustly suspended, and won a $425,000 settlement.
QJBk9 TIL about the oldest marathon runner Fauja Singh who ran his last race at the age of 101 and is currently alive and well at the age of 109.
9YKl6 TIL that the US is actually a net exporter of oil and petroleum products.
bBQp TIL that genome sequencing technologies have become so advanced that computing power has become a bottleneck for DNA analysis and bioinformatics
VMraB TIL Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing