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TIL people wanted to look like they were on heroin in the mid-90’s

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XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.
Bp4W TIL that Firefox has an experimental add-on called Collusion that allows you to see which sites are using third-party cookies to track your movements across the Web.
DGdJ TIL that less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus
781gb TIL: Due to animals not being sufficient enough, humans were experimented on by the medical team of the Manhattan Project. Civilians nationwide were injected radioactive elements in secrecy. The experiment only became public in the 1990s after all the test subjects died. Their families got money.
BgLkK TIL Catholic and Protestant Bibles both include 27 books in the New Testament but Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch.