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TIL that Chuck Norris was an outspoken supporter of the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California

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7r8yx TIL that on April Fools' Day 2006, Brian Shaffer, an Ohio State med student, was captured by CCTV entering a campus bar — but NOT coming out again. He's been missing for 10 years. Police wonder if he somehow escaped, others believe his body is still inside the bar.
awyNN TIL from the 1960s to 1990s, Pan Am flight attendants were required to be under 130 pounds.
MaM0 TIL - Circuit breakers halt trading on the nation’s stock markets during dramatic drops and are set at 7%, 13%, and 20% of the closing price for the previous day.
1DZD TIL that prairie dogs have such a complex means of communication that they can embed descriptions of predators within their calls, and even have a specific call to describe a man with a gun.
4kB6N TIL the Persian Gulf was once a very fertile and inhabited valley having flooded during the start of recorded history during the time of the Sumerians