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TIL That Dungeons and Dragons' "Thieves' Cant" is a real thing - a language used by beggars and thieves in medieval Britain.

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VgaB TIL Republicans fund science more than Democrats, and Democrats under Clinton cut the NASA budget by 25%, and under Bush, the budget went up by 20%
KYLyE TIL bananas are radioactive
vPdkx TIL that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was considered a "class clown" in high school who often performed strange pranks on his classmates. In 1978, he snuck into a yearbook photo for the Honor Society of his school. His face was then blacked out from the image, giving us this photo.
WvW4 TIL that there are 11,842 lakes in the state of Minnesota. More than the entire continent of Africa.
PYGrG TIL a California HS teacher designed an experiment/demonstration to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during WWII. It lasted 5 days and grew from just his class of 30 to over 200 students.