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TIL Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner in chemistry, was a eugenicist. He urged that human carriers of defective genes have a compulsory visible mark - such as forehead tattoos - to discourage potential mates with the same defect, having kids together.

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opME TIL there are currently 13,000 snakes PER SQUARE MILE in Guam after the invasive species of Brown Tree Snakes were introduced there in the 1940’s.
Z86Np TIL that Lord Byron protested the rules against keeping pet dogs while at Cambridge by keeping a pet bear
x6lQ1 TIL The Jewish mafia was nicknamed the Kosher Nostra
R7pXl TIL China banned Back to the Future because it contained time travel.
xVJQb TIL in 1918 at a Boy Scout medal ceremony, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to make a joke at Theodor Geisel’s expense by exclaiming “What’s this boy doing here?” but it backfired, causing the future Doctor Seuss to develop a lifelong fear of crowds.