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TIL that racism and homophobia are related to poor cognitive ability

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Pmvw TIL That an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to sit in the smelliest area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for animal abuse. “If you puke, you puke.”
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N496 TIL that 95% of historic mosques and monuments (many 1000 yrs old) in Mecca were torn down by the Saud family to make hotels, palaces and libraries.
re0y TIL that when one hermit crab finds a bigger shell, a gang of them will sometimes form a “vacancy chain” in which they queue up from smallest to largest and all move one shell up.
n9E7 TIL the President of the University of Oregon turned down having “The Graduate” filmed at the school in 1967. Not wanting to make the same mistake again, he allowed another movie to be filmed there around a decade later. That movie was “Animal House”.