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TIL that it is still legal in 19 states to paddle students as a form of punishment.

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XpVX TIL nobody can stand to be in world’s quietest room for more than 45 minutes. It is so quiet, the sounds of the body’s organs working and blood flowing drives people mad.
BOOK TIL that cheetahs were nearly exhausted by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Due to this, cheetahs are almost genetic clones of one another.
pWJG TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”
b9Qgp TIL that all modern horses are likely descended from a single male ancestor. Wild stallions were aggressive and untamable, so he was probably a timid stallion for whom domestication was the only chance to get laid.
kk1E TIL that Beethoven hated authority and social rank (he was a commoner), so much that he would stop playing if aristocrats talked during his performances.