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TIL that humans are bad at face recognition and almost can't distinguish unknown people apart.

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k6RB TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”
R5xGQ TIL that Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are both buried in the same cemetery in Rochester, New York.
VBAbk TIL that when Black South African soldiers returned home after serving in WW2 they were offered bikes and shoes for their service. Whereas White South African soldiers had brand new homes built for them by the government.
R5nAQ TIL that since 2017, each surgery resident in a teaching hospital acts as the surgeon in at least 850 operations during their 5 year residency training.
kOey1 TIL that the term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town sending the burden of their sins with it.