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Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.

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jvon TIL during the California Gold Rush, the distinct lack of women in San Fransisco caused gay culture to flourish. Men would often pay for “female impersonators” to be prostitutes.
6E5JJ TIL there is a small, insignificant church in Cumbria, UK, that has a 500 year old bell, inscribed with text from a language that died almost 1000 years before the bell was made. The meaning is unknown.
7KW7 TIL that a double-blind study which was published in Nature showed that experienced astrologers are no better at determining people’s psychological traits based on the location of the stars during their birth than someone who is randomly guessing them.
9YaKQ TIL a Yosemite Park ranger said designing garbage cans for the park is a difficult task because they have to be easy enough for humans to open, but complex enough so bears can't, citing a "considerable overlap" between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
KOEyw TIL Japanese dragons have 3 toes, whereas Chinese dragons have 4-5. The Japanese believe this is because dragons come from japan, and the further they travelled, the more toes they gained