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TIL of Antinatalism. A philosophy that asserts that having children is unethical.

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y0RJ TIL The Fibonacci sequence can be used to model an amazing variety of phenomena in mathematics, science, art and nature. It can be found in computer algorithms and seen in the branching of trees, or the spirals of a conch shell or a galaxy, but no one can really explain why.
69B0w TIL Professional clowns submit their likeness to the Clowns International group to copyright their unique looks, who paint eggs to match the hair, makeup and costumes of each performer, and then files them in the Clown Egg Register
workJ TIL the accumulation of gunk between your toes is call Toe Jam
OMP6 TIL In the 1912 Olympics, Duke Kahanamoku was favored to win 100m freestyle swim. When he overslept, missing the prelims. Cecil Healy of Australia refused to swim in final unless Duke was allowed to swim special qualifier. The judges relented; Healy’s sportsmanship cost him the gold.
4kdER TIL that Johns Hopkins had to retract a study about the effects of MDMA that they published because they realized that instead of ecstasy, they’d given METH to all but one of the research subjects.