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TIL someone made a font out of gerrymandered congressional districts

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5VwdR TIL about Ohalo II. A 23,000 year old upper paleolithic settlement with the earliest evidence of brushwood huts/dwellings and of plant cultivation.
ner7Y TIL of "Futility", a novella about the Titan - the largest ship of its time. It's dubbed an "unsinkable" ship, and doesn't have enough lifeboats. It hits an iceberg in mid-April in the Atlantic and sinks, killing most of its passengers. The book was written 14 years before Titanic's maiden voyage.
W7rrY TIL the Ostrich Effect, a phenomenon where people would figuratively “bury their head in the sand” and avoid negative but useful information, such as feedback on progress, to avoid psychological discomfort.
yVlk8 TIL John Morales, the actor who played the crime-fighting cartoon character McGruff the Crime Dog, was sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a 2011 arrest in which police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a grenade launcher – and 9,000 rounds of ammunition from his home
PYvVO TIL that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield have two species of spiders named after them - Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi.