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TIL: Some people can hear their eyes move

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YlMZ TIL in Canada you can serve a prison sentence on weekends.
Eg0oo TIL that vitamin D is a hormone, not a vitamin.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
gMB7b TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”
BrXye TIL In the 17th and 18th centuries, a sin-eater would eat your sins for a tiny fee. For believers, each time the sin-eater did his job, he literally becomes a bit more evil.