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TIL Americans read TWICE as much as they did 60 years ago

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PYxvZ TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, 10,000 people watched the lynching of Jesse Washington (castrated, burned, and mutilated for 2+ hours) A photographer sold postcards of the event. Prominent citizens eventually persuaded photographer to stop selling them fearing the images would come to characterize the town
rEOx TIL the brain has 2 internal clocks and people with Parkinson’s disease have trouble telling the passage of time.
RWZ6 TIL catnip….it works on humans. Consuming the roots, is used as a calming agent (Higher-doses work as a sleep aide too).
ojkR TIL A Swedish woman filed a police complaint for harassment when a man she rejected farted before leaving her home. Police dismissed the case and said: “It’s impossible to prove that he wanted to pass particularly smelly wind on purpose.”
8dBb TIL of Steve Comisar, who sold a ‘solar-powered clothes dryer’ for $39.99. Customers would then receive a clothesline.