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TIL: Planned Parenthood rejected a $500,000 donation for the naming rights of a clinic in Texas where their funding is poor. Why? The would-be donor was Tucker Max.

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XG7P TIL President Reagan was stalked by a man who called himself “Catman,” and who not only sent letters and “close-up photographs of his intended victims,” but also “lots of photos of cats.”
XR4r TIL an economist discovered that, other things being equal, suburban residents have more friends , invite friends into their homes more and have greater involvement in community groups. For every 10 percent decrease in density, the chance of people talking to their neighbors increases 10 percent
VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
e0JD4 TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all
mx7Mx TIL about the extinct Antarctic wolf, which was the only land mammal native to the Falkland Islands and was so tame that "it was possible to lure the animal with a chunk of meat held in one hand, and kill it with a knife held in the other"