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TIL: Blacks and Latinos accounted for 100 percent of LAPD dog bite victims in 2013.

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k4EE TIL that German Stalingrad veterans would often break their infantry assault badges as an indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else
MeLQB TIL of Semantic Satiation: the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
eOlk TIL A Utah teacher was fired for writing an educational blog about “homophones”
XNvj TIL that watching Home Alone is a national tradition in Poland at Christmastime. When the network owning the rights opted not to show it in 2010, there were national protests. Over 10% of the population of Poland will watch this broadcast live annually.
4kveN TIL child prodigy Adragon De Mello's father planned for his son to get a Ph.D. in physics by age 12, win the Nobel Prize by age 16, and then become a Senator, a President, the head of a world government, and ultimately the chairman of an "intergalactic government".