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TIL there is a scientific study evaluating Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad’s ability to assist in passing a kidney stone

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74xr TIL that the average American thinks that 26% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, while it in reality is less than 1%, or 0.17% of GNI (compared to 1.4% of Sweden’s GNI)
b98yN TIL that the word villain came from the ancient term villein, a person of low social status in the feudal system.
O0n6 TIL British Members of Parliament are not allowed to resign, so they have to be appointed to a fictitious job “Steward of Northstead” which disqualifies them from being an MP
bxK4 TIL that in Persian rug making, a deliberate mistake is always placed in the rug because ‘to weave a perfect rug or carpet would be an offence to Allah’
W7N8Y TIL high levels of Neanderthal DNA is linked with LOWER risk of Schizophrenia and Psychotic Symptom