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TIL a lot of shelters won’t allow black cats to be adopted around Halloween, out of fear that they might be sacrificed or tortured during rituals.

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Odk6 TIL that Up With People, the upbeat youth ensemble that headlined four Super Bowl halftime shows, was financed by companies like Exxon and Halliburton with the intention of counteracting social change in the U.S. and promoting American capitalism overseas
Oo7OR TIL of Zeynab bint Al-Harith, a jewish woman who poisoned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad because he killed her entire family.
ElXw TIL of Guillaume Dumas, a teenager who snuck into Ivy League schools over 4 years, gaining free education from Yale, Brown, Stanford and many others.
epKBJ TIL that wiping one's nose & treating it's underlying cause of runnyness (allergy, pathogen, etc) is much more effective and safer for the nasal passages than blowing it
QdQE TIL Sharon Stone, for many years, maintained that she had an IQ of 148 and was a member of Mensa. She admitted in 2002 that she was not, and had never been, a member of Mensa.