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TIL that the idea that penis size differs between races is based on flawed data and pseudoscience from scholars of race realism

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Oodxe TIL Guinness beer and Guinness book of world records is the same company (though not officially related anymore)
grPj4 TIL the world record in holding the breath is at 24 minutes 37.36 seconds.
D1BlP TIL about Eduard Bloch, Hitler's childhood doctor, and a Jew. When Hitler's mother couldn't afford cancer treatment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf declared undying gratitude, and when Austria was annexed, Hitler kept his word and granted the doctor special protection by the Gestapo.
WkmjX TIL About an experiment done between 1929-1935 that found that students only needed 1 year of Math in Grade 6 to perform just as well as other students that had been doing Math lessons for 6 years.
VMayG TIL that the 1992 film "American Me" enraged Mexican gangsters to the extent that numerous people involved with the film were murdered. Danny Trejo claimed 10. Edward Olmos, the director of the film, was also the victim of an extortion plot.