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TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”

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yX8V TIL Anthony Curcio put an ad on Craigslist for 15-20 similarly dressed workers for a fake cleanup project and to meet in a bank parking lot at the time he was to rob an armored truck. Curcio, dressed like the others, worked the grounds, pepper-sprayed the driver, and left with over $400,000.
G9oG TIL there’s an episode of Arthur that teaches censorship on television. For the entirety of the episode the children learn and use curse words toward one another!
78V8M TIL Rembrandt's painting Bathsheba, an artwork famous for depicting a woman with breast cancer, was proven to not depict the disease after all, as scientists, after performing multiple simulations, concluded that the tone of blue the lesion has can only occur when the lesion is located at the skin.
N4mb TIL that the very first phone number of the White House was “1”.
lode5 TIL a researcher recorded more than 100 animal handlers and found it's pretty much universal -- regardless of the language spoken or the animal being handled -- that humans use short, repeated sounds to get an animal to go or speed up, and long, slow sounds to get an animal to stop or slow down.