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TIL Someone made a lifejacket for a fish that can’t swim.

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d9E9 TIL The British outlawed the worship of Sopona, the god of smallpox, in Nigeria after a doctor infiltrated a powerful cult of the god’s priests and discovered they were deliberately spreading the disease in a plot to increase their power.
yGpp TIL The first female journalist to interview a U.S. President did so by sitting on John Q. Adams’ clothes while he swam nude in the Potomac forcing him to do the interview.
aNeA TIL that a Queen song, “Stone Cold Crazy”, is widely considered to be one of the first thrash metal songs ever written.
R70yw TIL in 2001, an Australian child psychologist allowed a 15-year-old boy with terminal cancer to have sex with a prostitute and lose his virginity before he died.
R5nx4 TIL the term meme was first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his renowned book “The Selfish Gene”, and was defined as an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person