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TIL: 2/3 of US population is one paycheck away from homelessness

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VMdb0 TIL In 2010 a mother killed her baby because it was distracting her from playing FarmVille
6EPbW TIL The crime of “upskirting” is taken seriously in Japan, with manhunts common, primarily due to a shortage of crime and an abundance of police officers in the nation.
EXyV TIL: There is a company that drills for oil based on predictions consistent with Biblical Flood Geology…. and It Hasn’t Found Any Oil…. I introduce to you, Zion Oil Corp
DQKZD TIL that Latimer Road tube station has automated announcements asking people not to take photos of the adjacent Grenfell Tower, partly out of respect for the people who died there and partly so that camera flashes don't distract tube drivers
5YBaR TIL The trivia (singular trivium) are three lower Artes Liberales: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates.