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TIL: A study found that baseball cards on eBay sold for 20% less if the card was held by a black hand versus a card held by a white hand

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oR9PW TIL that the Great Sphinx of Giza’s nose has been broken since at least the 1400s. A 15th century writer blamed the incident on the actions of a zealot in 1378. Archaeological evidence indicates the nose was broken off by rods or chisels.
e0x0n TIL Oreo "Double Stuf" do NOT contain double the amount of filling, but merely 1.86 times the amount, though Nabisco refutes this claim.
4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.
NkdM TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
veZx TIL that Missing Children Europe, has a service that let’s webmasters replace their 404 error page by a custom one that puts the picture of a missing kid on the page. It’s accompanied by the text “PAGE NOT FOUND, NEITHER IS THIS KID”