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TIL Amish Mafia on Discovery is completely fake (as opposed to just being kinda fake) [snopes]

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kJoKB TIL from the 1990s through 2021 the NFL used a method called "race-norming", which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function, as part of a dementia test to determine payouts in brain injury settlements.
W7wPX TIL Actor Crispin Glover Wrote A Rap Song About Jackin’ Off.
KOv4R TIL of gyandromorphism: an occurence in nature in which an organism has both male and female characteristics in one body; sometimes surfacing as male on one half of the body and female on the other.
7Obx TIL a German Soldier used in recruitment posters as “The Ideal German Soldier” was Half-Jewish and discharged due to that.
O0WX TIL Coke was originally marketed as a cure to many ailments including low sexual libido.The creator of Coke,John Pemberton was forced to take the alcohol out of his original coke wine formula due to prohibition laws,but he first touted that version as “a most wonderful invigorator of sexual organs.”