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TIL Wedgwood Rock - an enormous erratic rock in someone's front yard in Seattle

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joEj TIL that US senators sought to ban ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ from theaters for “[making] the Senate look like a bunch of crooks”
PYpbn TIL peekaboo is universal to all cultures, and developmental psychologists believe it is important to infant development.
R7Qe9 TIL that Grand Duke Alexis, son of Russian Tsar Alexander II, made regular overseas trips to have tattoos done by master artists, including a journey to Japan to get an elaborate dragon tattoo covering his entire right arm - and at the end of the 19th century, was the most tattooed person in Europe
X8xR TIL Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA released nearly 12 million documents. One set of documents revealed research of possibility that “insane” people may be experiencing multiple “levels of reality” and their brains can’t process this information, leading to mental instability [PDF]
AlDn TIL African immigrants in Switzerland have a crime rate of above 600% that of the native Swiss population