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TIL that 86.8% of Pit Bulls pass a temperament test - better than Collies, Golden Retrievers and Beagles

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g1o9 TIL that there isn’t a single McDonalds chain in Iceland
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.
yDnM TIL A man who’s filed over 10,000 lawsuits sued Guinness World Records for naming him The World’s Most Litigious Man
oOK TIL that in 2009, a Guatemalan committed suicide by taking out a contract on himself using a hitman. He hoped this would help overthrow the current government and save the country.
emgb TIL There is a negative correlation between incidence of rape and pornography use - as porn use goes up, rape rates goes down