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TIL there's 88 cities/towns named Washington in the US
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TIL that 40% of the genetic information found in our GI Tract doesn’t fit anything ever classified before. Biologists call it “Biological Dark Matter”.
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TIL Polygamy was legal in Thailand until October 1, 1935, when the law classified wives into three categories based on how they got married.
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TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.
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TIL that a Chinese millionaire author of online fantasy novels paid $10,000 for the most expensive single dram (shot) of Scotch ever sold, only to have the bar manager fly to China to refund him in person when the Scotch was determined to be a fake
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TIL that the Smurfs were essentially communists. They all had “defined roles”, they all “dresse[d] alike”, and they had no economy. Also the Smurfs nemesis, Gargamel, represented capitalism with his desire to “exploit the Smurfs”.