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TIL 61% of men and 48% of women partake in sexting and suggestive photo taking with their cellphones.

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9YYM7 TIL that Hitler approved of a school to talk to dogs. One dog, when asked "Who is Adolf Hitler?" was trained to reply "Mein Fuhrer!"
XE09Q TIL that at the incredibly popular race track the "Las Vegas Motor Speedway" every once in a while the local sheriffs department will come down to drag race anyone who simply has a license, a street legal car, and is interested, in an effort to take illegal drag/street racing off the public roads.
GAyx5 TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab
69j8 TIL that The Learning Channel (TLC) was founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.
rGZy TIL In research there is a demand characteristic known as the “Screw-You Effect” - when participants attempt to ruin the results of a study