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TIL a London borough has invented a public bench that perfectly repels graffiti, skateboarders, litter, rough sleepers and even rain. [seen in r/London]

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j8WQ TIL that in 2013, more Americans were killed by toddlers than Terrorists
VVM0 TIL Reddit founder Alex Ohanian, wrote an open letter to Reddit about stopping their sexist ways. It was titled “dear fellow geeks: WTF”
vPP97 TIL facial movements commonly thought to signal particular emotions regardless of context, person, and culture are not universally diagnostic of emotional states
BxWK TIL an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea meets a white man for the first time in 1976 and thinks the white man is covered in dirt/sand.
QnRL TIL that in the 1960s, MGM’s Tom & Jerry had their faceless black housekeeper Mammy Twoshoes replaced by a Irish-accented white woman