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TIL most blind people with no perception of light experience continual circadian desynchrony

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78NkM TIL about Rollen Stewart, the "Rainbow Man" known for wearing a rainbow wig and holding "John 3:16" signs at sports games in the '70s and '80s. Eventually he started setting off stink bombs and in 1992, took a maid hostage during a protest. A prosecutor called him "a David Koresh waiting to happen".
9O8X TIL In 1992 A banner appeared in the lobby of MIT at the end of the year that read “GAME OVER INSERT 94260 QUARTERS TO CONTINUE” as the tuition at the time was $23,565.
aYVJ TIL The relationship between single-parent families and crime is so strong that controlling for it erases the difference between race and crime and between low income and crime.
NZVe TIL the LGBT triangle originated during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. It was used to identify male prisoners who were homosexual. Originally intended as a badge of shame,the pink triangle (often inverted from its Nazi usage) has been reclaimed as an international symbol of the gay rights movement.
epneL TIL about the Italian Unionist Movement, a political party in Italy which wanted the USA to annex the entire world starting with Italy, they gained 70,000 votes and were the 13th largest party in the 1946 Italian general elections.