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TIL of cuteness inspired aggression, it is the reason people want to squeeze cute things.

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YXWd TIL the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics were run with very little government funding and ended with over $200 million in profit.
RJM1 TIL before 1996, English courts had a “year and a day” rule where if it takes someone longer than a year and a day to kill someone then it is not counted as murder.
e0We5 TIL about the Fermi Paradox, a concept from the 1950s named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, that highlights the apparent disparity between estimates of intelligent life on other planets and a conspicuous lack of such evidence thus far in our exploration.
d8lX8 TIL about the growing North American problem of jumping worms brought in from East Asia. They disturb the soil which then erode easily, dries out quickly, and generally makes poor habitat for many plants
8XbL TIl that Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, openly wanted equal rights and respect for women, in the fifteenth century. This stance has been kept in Sikhism until today (as is equal rights for all humans, no matter their religion)!