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TIL The Star Wars kid is now a law student,and the president of nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hometowns heritage and culture.

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dDm98 Today I learned that ants can theoretically survive a fall from practically any height since an ant falling through the air only has a terminal velocity of about 4 mph.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
J1A0Q TIL about the Teddy bear toss, a popular Christmas season promotion at junior ice hockey and minor league hockey games. Fans are encouraged to bring teddy bears and throw them on the ice when the home team scores its first goal. The toys are gathered donated to hospitals and charities.
Me6Ya TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!
WkBY9 TIL that in the 1980s, a Turkish immigrant in West Berlin built himself a vegetable garden that was technically in East Germany