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TIL that D.D. Palmer, the creator of chiropractic medicine, claimed to have received his ideas on chiropractic from "the other world" and considered declaring chiropractic to be a religion.

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x6bx0 TIL that Who Let the Dogs out by the Baha Men out is actually a feminist anthem about men catcalling women. The chant is a response to the women being catcalled on by a group of men, saying that if the men name call then the women can do it right back.
ODb1 TIL that Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.
7Qlx TIL a trans woman wasn’t allowed to change her gender marker to female at the DMV, so she went outside and took off her shirt. She was arrested, despite her license saying “Male”
rRYxW TIL that a bank was once sent through USPS brick by brick
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154