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TIL Indians have the smallest brains in the world

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7mBx TIL a teacher in Queens resigned after an investigation revealed he’d used 11 sick days to compete in professional wrestling matches, once on a televised “SmackDown!” match against Kurt Angle.
6EVnJ TIL most people who can touch-type greater than 70wpm with greater than 90% accuracy, also can't correctly recite from memory the layout of their keyboard.
QJ0RL TIL that in 2007, the Australian Government spent $84 million on a porn filter. A 16-year old boy, Tom Wood, cracked the filter in less than 40 minutes.
yQmKa TIL that the Chesapeake and Delaware canal reduces 300 miles for ships going from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Without it, ships would need to travel to Virginia Beach and then back up to access Baltimore. It also accounts for 40% of the traffic at the Port of Baltimore.
ADeYa TIL Saskatchewan was a hotbed of LSD research in the 1950s with a 50% success rate in treating alcoholism and and architect using LSD used the infamous hospitals to make future institutions more comfortable for the mentally ill.