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TIL that FOX News watchers scored less than no news watchers when asked domestic and international policy questions.

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oBe07 TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
R7ROa TIL About the rarest blood on Earth. In 49 years, Rhnull has only been known in 43 or so people around the world.
y6rX TIL a “dead cat bounce” is a brief rise in the price of a declining stock, because “even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height”
8eAeL TIL there are some time zones in the world that are offset 30 (or even 45) minutes (instead of the usual 60 minutes) from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".