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TIL that Ivy League Schools used to take nude photos of all incoming freshmen until the 1960's, claiming it was meant to study posture

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QJWmd TIL 100 years ago Rupert Murdoch's father, a journalist, conspired with anti-Semitic war historian Charles Bean, to convince the Prime Minister of Australia to de-mote Australian General and commander of the Western front John Monash, a man stongly admired by his troops and of Jewish heritage.
l9Er TIL The reason public toilet seats have a gap in the front is to aid women. Leaving a space allows them to wipe without touching a “dirty surface.”
e04l5 TIL human eyeballs only grow about 8 millimeters from birth to adolescence, making them the only body part that stays relatively the same size throughout your life.
8a1NX TIL California is home to 91 of the 100 most expensive zip codes in America.
9xxD TIL The first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan after 9/11 were caused by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on a Canadian military exercise.