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TIL that Amish men don’t wear wedding rings. Instead they grow their beards out. A married man shaving his beard is like lying about his relationship status.

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neK7P Today I Learned NASA created a Capture the Flag contest for it's future of manned space travel. On its final flight, Shuttle Atlantis left a small flag on the ISS. This flag was attached to the hatch and was to be brought home by an American spacecraft. It comes home with SpaceX.
PYQAn TIL roughly 3 to 5 percent of the world’s population has an apathy toward music known as "musical anhedonia," in which their brain is biologically incapable of responding to any music whatsoever.
l7JZ5 TIL: "Silhouette" is derived from the French finance minister, Étienne de Silhouette. de Silhouette's strict economies made his name synonymous with anything done/made cheaply. Before photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance.
vEkD TIL in his tepid review of “Groundhog Day” at the time of its release, critic Desson Howe specifically stated the film would “never be designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.” In 2006, the film was designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.
a8K0 TIL that the Roe effect is an hypothesis which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base by having fewer children, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion.