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TIL In the '80s there was an intense nationwide effort in China to study ESP among children

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4kLLR TIL that sleeping with your bedroom door open may cost you your life in a fire
v1yej TIL When hummingbirds reach puberty, the males’ beaks grow longer and sharper. They use them to stab other males in the throat to secure mating spots.
xVlQ0 TIL after she was burned at the stake, Joan of Arcs brothers hired an imposter so they could collect on her good name fraudulently.
mxXEY TIL of Joe Arridy, a mentally disabled man who was executed for a murder he didn’t commit. Police also arrested the true killer who was found with the murder weapon & identified by the victim’s sister. Arridy didn’t understand his fate & laughed & smiled entering the gas chamber.
oepo TIL A magazine published by a group that denied the AIDS virus existed was forced to cease publication because all of its editors died of AIDS.