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TIL that Joseph Stalin had a secret lab that analyzed the poop of foreign leaders in order to build their psychological profiles and even reportedly refused an agreement with China’s Mao Zedong after reading an analysis of his poo

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rRXGM TIL If any person on your entire tax return for 2019 has an ITIN instead of a SSN, you are ineligible for ANY Recovery money from the CARES.
bpR9 TIL the way you pay for something affects how you perceive the transaction. Using cash “hurts” more because the loss of money is perceived to be more immediate, while using a credit/debit card decouples the purchase from the loss of money.
4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.
VBQA0 TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence
gM1W8 TIL Julie Andrews lost the ability to sing due to a botched vocal surgery in 1997