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TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one

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MeA1A TIL of Hellfire Clubs, 18th century social clubs, extant in UK, where men and women gathered to perform socially unacceptable actions while simultaneously mocking religion, satirically, in a time when it was blasphemous to do so.
nW5Zr TIL of the Giant GRB Ring which is a ring of 9 gamma-ray bursts. It is 5.6 BILLION light years across.
rQB1 TIL that the “Vern” in Ernest P. Worrell’s famous “Know what I mean, Vern?” catchphrase was supposed to be you, the viewer, in which case you were his neighbor, Vern.
KYNy9 TIL In 2019 a man in the United States had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia and four years later his semen was the same as the donor. So, if he had children, they wouldn't have his DNA....he is now considered a chimera.
xQ0B TIL in 1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States and one of his two requests was to go to Disneyland, wich was denied. The other was to meet John Wayne.