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TIL 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.

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gr97A TIL that Loma Linda, CA is one of the five "Blue Zones", or areas in which people tend to live to 100 years old. This is generally believed to be because many of the residents are Seventh Day Adventists, who eat mostly plant based diets, get a lot of exercise, and drink mostly water.
Xa78 TIL the 2014 film “Nightcrawler” was inspired by a photographer named Arthur Fellig, who in the 1930’s, installed a police-band shortwave radio in his car and maintained a complete darkroom in the trunk. He’d often beat authorities to the scene, then sell his gory photos to the tabloids.
E156W TIL that spiders can fly :/
XGok TIL that in South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife.
m0gR TIL that Fly Agaric mushrooms, which look like Super Mario Bros. mushrooms, contain a psychoactive chemical that can cause micropsia/macropsia, aka the illusion that objects around you are larger or smaller than they actually are.