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TIL that men are capable of sensing the earth's geomagnetic field, but only under blue light and only when they're hungry.

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5YVjD TIL there is an island in Massachusetts named “No Mans Land”. The island is now an unstaffed animal refuge and is closed to public use due to safety risks from “unexploded ordnance”, as it was previously utilized by the U.S. Navy.
X0OQ6 TIL that in Nazi-occupied Scandinavia, maternity centers were established to harvest Nordic “Aryan” traits and then send babies southward into Germany to “correct” the German population’s genes
vWQr TIL of a Korean film called Silenced, depicting events which took place at a deaf school, where students were systematically abused for years. The film sparked a public outcry and reinvestigation. Several teachers and the principal faced prosecution, eventually causing the school to be closed.
5ZWQ TIL that India’s former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao spoke 17 languages - 8 foreign languages (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian) and 9 Indian languages (Telugu, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu)
jWwX TIL that while dating Jonathan Brandis in the 1990s, Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel Air) was approached by a black man who said, “I want you to know, I watch your show all the time. But now that I see you letting this white man date you, I will never watch your show again.”