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TIL about Ern Malley, a fictitious Australian poet created to ridicule modernist poetry. A modernist journal devoted an issue to his poems and the editor was sued for immoral material. A policeman said "I don't know what 'incestuous' means, but I think there is a suggestion of indecency about it."

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Rj08 TIL Human Rights Watch released a 175 page report documenting human rights violations in the US meat and poultry industries
mARE TIL: That bright lights, spicy food and even noise can cause some people to sneeze. This is called the Photic Sneeze reflex.
BrNDK TIL clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows (bonus: in an attempt to recover their cultural identity, Bolivians installed an anti-clockwise clock in their Congress building)
oBpaR TIL that there are more viruses in the oceans than there are stars in the universe, by 10 million fold, and lined side-by-side, they would stretch beyond the nearest 60 galaxies.
Wkjg8 TIL that British troops never simply marched straight into gunfire at the battle of the Somme. Instead, the reason for the staggering casualties was due to strategic blunders, the concentrated battlefield, and the preparedness of the German forces.