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TIL that racism and homophobia are related to poor cognitive ability

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Y7ONv TIL Tattooing was illegal until 1997 in New York.
Me50b TIL the ship used in the filming of "In the Navy" by The Village People was sold to Turkey in 2002 and was sunk as a target ship in 2005.
mx15x TIL a 10,000 man Mongol army was destroyed by Egyptian Mamluks after being fooled by a feigned retreat and getting surrounded, a tactic often used by the Mongol's themselves
Lb7v TIL two billion people in the world suffer from iron deficiency (anemia) and that this can be solved by putting a little iron fish into one’s cooking pot.
8dvV TIL that the “Golden Age Fallacy” (believing the past is better than the present) has been a popular myth that goes back as far as Ancient Greece and Prehistoric Times.