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TIL “The birdcage logic is a psychological phenomenon showing our cognitive and behavioral inertia.”

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Oo18X TIL Horses can't throw up. If they need to throw up, they'll die.
8QJ8 TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.
P1YnZ TIL from 1848 to 1962, Algeria was considered an integral part of Mainland France rather than a foreign colony.
d19Q TIL the ‘Moon Museum’ is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size which was left on the surface of the moon during the apollo 12 mission. It contains artworks by the six most prominent artists of the 1960’s, including Andy Warhol, who drew a penis.
GADw4 TIL: That while pregnant in 1956, Grace Kelly was frequently photographed clutching a distinctive leather handbag which was likely a shield to prevent her from being exposed to the paparazzi. However, the pictures popularized the purse so much that it would later come to be known as the Kelly bag.