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TIL there are “witch camps” in Ghana where women accused of witchcraft can flee for their lives. They live in squalid conditions for the rest of their lives unless a priest determines their innocence by killing a chicken and watching how it dies.

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9eXr TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
W7G84 TIL that Häagen-Dazs is an American, not European, company founded in the Bronx in 1960
ADA6g TIL The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) produced 43 percent of songs on the radio in the US at one point in 2003
edOE TIL the phrase “all natural” is completely unregulated and can be used to describe any product. “The lack of standards in most jurisdictions means that the term assures nothing.”
j0aj TIL that Vanessa Carlton wrote the riff for “A Thousand Miles” in 1998. Upon hearing it her mother told her “Vanessa, that’s a hit song.”