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TIL Hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells during hurricane Katrina as officials abandoned Orleans Parish Prison.

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xVWZg TIL a reason that jazz flute players wore "soul patches" (soul patches are a bit of facial hair left below the lower lip and popularized as a general style by jazz musicians) is because they disliked the feeling of the flute against clean-shaven skin below the lower lip
Z8ZjG TIL that a 2010 Pew survey found that atheists and agnostics are one of the highest scoring groups when it comes to general religious knowledge
kJ6rd TIL during pregnancy, if the mother experiences damage to one or more organs, stem cells from the developing fetus can be sent to aid in the repair of said damage...
VDVk TIL that while filming “The Princess Bride” in 1987, Cary Elwes (Westley) claims the NYPD had an undercover office follow around Andre the Giant when he went out drinking to make sure Andre didn’t pass out and fall on anyone.
V0KB TIL An adult human is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s (7 octillion) atoms.