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TIL that a glass ball will bounce higher than a rubber ball!
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TIL a Massachussets judge ordered a mentally ill woman to have an abortion and be sterilized against her wishes.
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TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel prize winning philosopher, suffered a bad trip after using Mescaline, in which he thought he was menaced by sea creatures. For years following this, he consistently believed that he was being followed by lobsters.
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TIL Andrew Jackson participated in the American Revolution informally at age 13 as a courier, survived being captured by the British, and was the only member of his family to survive the revolution, becoming an orphan at age 14.
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TIL asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat are 3 to 4 times more likely to be legitimate refugees than asylum seekers arriving by plane.
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TIL David Bowie has a spider named after him.