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TIL Men’s brains change with fatherhood
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TIL The most prolific narrator of hadiths (non Quranic stories and sermons of the Prophet) was known by the kunyah Abu Hurayrah "Father of a Kitten". Abu Hurayrah is a controversial figure as many of his 5374 hadiths lack witnesses to confirm them.
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TIL about Chai Ling, a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. She advocated to continue protesting until a bloodshed would change China, but when interviewed before the incident about whether she herself would attend the protests, she answered no, cause she wanted to live.
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TIL the province of Alberta, Canada is the only place in the world where there are zero rats. Since the 1950s there has been a war between rats and the Albertan government. There is even a rat sighting hotline.
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TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. personally convinced Nichelle Nichols not to quit Star Trek, because he felt a black woman playing Lt. Uhuru in an equal role to the rest of the crew would be an important portrayal of the world he wanted to see
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TIL that the name of the eponymous character "STAN" from Eminem's biggest hit song of the same name ,has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous, maniacal, overly obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality; the term has since been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.