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TIL that a university found a white student guilty of racial harassment for reading a book titled Notre Dame vs. the Klan even though the book honored student opposition to the klan when it marched on Notre Dame in 1924.

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yMjv TIL: The United States had plans to store all of their nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada. The plan was shelved in 2011 and there is no current long term plan in place.
rRpxo TIL a group of young male elephants were rejected by the local females at a new reserve. The young males then accidentally killed 17 rhinos by trying to have sex with them. When parents were brought in this stopped immediately.
epld5 TIL: In a research study, women who were presented with images of “slim-thick” women reported greater dissatisfaction with their weight, appearance, and overall satisfaction with their own bodies compared to those who viewed “thin-ideal” imagery.
BN1x TIL that after 1812, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spent “the rest of their lives writing fascinating letters to each other.”
w996 TIL that the odds of a driver hitting a deer in West Virginia are 1 in 41. By far the highest in the United States.