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TIL a corporate news company has made a ‘portrait of a redditor’, who is 'skeptical, geeky’ and 'liberal’ and observed 'Whatever the Reddit “hivemind” enjoys will be rewarded with upvotes’

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Or1a TIL that Lincoln had depression for most of his life and often contemplated suicide.
X0JP TIL that cats and dogs prefer to listen to species-specific music that sounds grating and unnatural to the human ear. They may not like ordinary human music!
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0dMEp TIL that Clara Bow from Taylor Swift's recent album was a huge film star in the 1920s and 30s who made 58 films in the oppressive studio system, then walked away from it all to defy the system and lived out her life happily in privacy
JbP8 TIL a young Xhosa girl had a vision instructing the tribe to kill all the cattle and destroy the crops, as a sacrifice to the ancestors who would rise up and drive the white settlers into the sea. Thus began the ‘Great Cattle Killing’ after which over 40,000 Xhosa died in the resulting famine.