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TIL of the Rice Bucket Challenge, a variant of the Ice Bucket Challenge, which involves donating a bucket of rice to a poor person or family.

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N70GQ TIL in some states homeowners are legally obligated to disclose if a property is haunted to potential buyers. It is considered a “psychological” or “emotional” issues or defects.
8dVX TIL During prohibition, people used to get prescriptions for ‘medical’ wine and alcohol, just like today with weed.
6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
1aZGP TIL that in 2012 Facebook ran psychological experiments on users to study "emotional contagion" without consent of users or pre-approval from ethics boards. Facebook was able to prove that it could alter the moods of users by changing algorithms of users news feeds.
QoRd TIL the number of days Phil spends in the time loop of the movie Groundhog Day was estimated to be around 30-40 years