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TIL an American charity pays drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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D1eJj TIL Hutton Gibson, father of critically acclaimed actor Mel Gibson, is a Jeopardy champion and Holocaust denier. He also believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories and rejects the Second Vatican Council because it is "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews".
XEOVj TIL in 1964, a bristlecone pine was killed after a graduate research student accidentally got his tree core stuck in it's trunk. The tree was cut down to retrieve the core only to find out it was the oldest known living organism known at that time. It was estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
4kXyN TIL that owls have lopsided ears. The asymmetrical design allows them to pinpoint sounds more accurately in 3D space.
x6bgD TIL that during the Jonestown Massacre, many of the 900 cult followers refused to drink or administer the poisoned Flavoure-Aid to their children. And so they were just killed. Either shot in the head or poisoned by being injected with the cyanide.
b95Wj TIL that domestic cats' intelligence may apply "if I fits I sits" even in perceived spaces -- for instance, a cat will still try to sit in a 2D optical illusion that can be perceived as a 3D container (Illusory contours)