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TIL that racism and homophobia are scientifically linked to lower IQs

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rRZwo TIL according to some European folklore, people born on Saturday were believed to be able to see vampires even if they were invisible and were best suited to become vampire hunters.
J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.
OGLBX TIL that Midnight Oil's landmark hit 'Beds Are Burning' was written to criticise the forced removal of Aboriginal Peoples from their ancestral lands.
l7J6N TIL McDonald's closed in Iceland, but the last burger and fries still linger on and are now in a glass encased shrine in a guest house in South Iceland. Twelve plus years later, neither appear to have decayed one bit.
Z86wv TIL about Hannah Sabata, a 19 year old Nebraska woman who stole $6000 from a bank in 2012. After the crime she immediately posted a video to YouTube titled "Chick Bank Robber" where she held bundles of cash up to the camera and bragged about what she'd done. She was caught the same day.