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TIL that a University of Montreal study on the porn-viewing habits of men was cancelled when the researcher was unable to find any men who had never watched porn.

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pAD4 TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.
NK48 TIL that despite Alzheimer’s Disease killing nearly as many people every year as cancer (in the U.S.), it receives only a tenth of the funding from the government that cancer does.
0wLW1 TiL that Tobe Hooper, the director behind "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), also directed the music video for Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself"
BB6W TIL that chickens have a three digit hand and a tail while in embryo and genes trigger their re-absorption. Scientists are trying to isolate and deactivate these to create a chickenosaurus.
VBpBD TIL Around 2200 BC, a drought lasting about 100 years started that has been hypothesized to have caused the collapse of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus Valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, Liangzhu Civilization in China, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.