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TIL the first thanks giving in America was not celebrated in Plymouth Massachussets, but in Berkeley Hundred, Virginia

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VBpYD TIL: Paris has no stop signs
neAeb TIL One study found that job seekers are more likely to be hired if they wear glasses to their interview. Several studies have shown that people who wear glasses are typically perceived as more intelligent, more competent, and more industrious than those without spectacles
epMan TIL Conjoined triplets are among the rarest of human malformations, as are asymmetric or parasitic conjoined twins. In addition to some historical descriptions, only three attested clinical cases of symmetric conjoined triplets have been published to date.
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jNgdN TIL the use of phrenology was largely responsible for the racial divide that resulted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide which killed over 1 million people