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TIL the film The Wolf of Wall Street was funded with money stolen through fraud

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vPVax TIL That in some women’s rooms they have automatic seat covers. I of course checked the men’s room at this establishment and all that was there were the normal butt gaskets. I have never encountered this in my travels. Double standard?
jNj1Q TIL of a study that examined the brains of nuns who engaged in “centering prayer,” which is meant to create a feeling of oneness with God. The nuns’ brain scans showed similarities to people who use drugs like psilocybin mushrooms.
5k99 TIL that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed that a race of uniformly 6-foot-tall humans who dressed like Quakers and lived to the age of 1,000 resided on the moon.
j6GQn TIL there are no hereditary knighthoods in the UK anymore. The only hereditary nobles left are about 900 peers and about 1200 baronets.
9w4Pm TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.