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TIL Americans find rapists more trustworthy than atheists

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OokNe TIL of Chess boxing, a sport that combines chess and boxing in alternating rounds, popular in Germany, India, Russia and the UK.
5VWon TIL that Marajó, an island in the Amazon river delta, has an area of 49000 sq kms and is larger than countries like Switzerland and Belgium.
DQQdY TIL During Episode IV – A New Hope, the creative team needed to come up with a way to make Luke’s speeder look like it was actually flying. They figured out that they could cover the wheels with mirrors to make it look like it was in flight.
m114v TIL the ending of the Invader Zim episode “Walk of Doom” was changed because Nickelodeon was concerned that a sign that said “Welcome to Mexico” may have been offensive.
Brk4W TIL Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is sung in Japan at the end of every year, and the first time it was sung in the country was in a POW camp in 1918 by German prisoners