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TIL that John F. Kennedy liked to say: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”

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DQ9P TIL the income gap between the US and Mexico is the largest of any two adjacent countries in the world
XXZ6 TIL that police broke up a Lego heist ring last year for stealing $40,000 worth of bricks and found that one of the suspects was also in possession of another $160,000 of bricks—18 pallets worth.
kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
0XwR TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.
YZLW TIL that cuckoo finches lay more than one egg in a victim’s nest to trick the host parent into fostering their young for them. When there are multiple eggs, the host parent cannot tell the fraudulent eggs apart from its own