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TIL Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donated $992 Million to Planned Parenthood

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BdAe TIL that in 1917 idiots were prohibited to enter the US.
nApG TIL that during the making of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’ the Coen brothers had someone on set just to catch snakes using a golf club. When asked what to call somebody with this profession, he said 'an idiot.’
mL9O TIL when people are electrocuted and thrown far distances, it is a result of sudden and violent muscle contraction and not the result of the shock. This has raised questions as to the actual strength and capabilities of the muscles in the human body
9wxGQ TIL that Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro correctly speculated about the existence of germs thousands of years prior to the discovery of germ theory.
OGg1g TIL The Emperor of Japan during WWII, Hirohito officially boycotted going to Yasukuni Shrine after finding out that war criminals were inshrined there. This “boycott” has been continued by every subsequent Emperor & royal family member.