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TIL how schools are making kids dumb.

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woYw8 TIL around the time of "Chinatown", Jack Nicholson found out his "sister" was really his mother, and his "mother" was really his grandmother.
D1wyv TIL that breathing 100% pure oxygen for more than 16 hours can lead to irreversible lung damage, damage to the retinas, and eventually, death.
gM71D TIL An increasing number of elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. People aged 65+ now make up more than a quarter of the prison population in Japan.
QZMe TIL a couple invited the Queen to their wedding as a joke, and she turned up.
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.