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TIL James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”

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8a9jK TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus once parked in Tom Arnold's parking spot on the CBS lot. He left a note on her windshield that read "How stupid are you? Move your f--king car, you asshole!" She later found "a Polaroid of someone's buttocks left on her windshield and the word 'cunt' written in soap."
GYLKG TIL after the infamous German cannibal case of Armin Meiwes and his willing 'victim' Bernd Brandes in 2001, Detlev Guenzel repeated that act in 2013, on the same site Meiwes found his victim.
VMAY4 TIL in 2004 Morse code got its first update in 60 years, with the addition of the symbol "@". The new code takes twice as long as spelling out the word "at".
gJ0L TIL when recovering and removing debris from the fallen Twin Towers, excavators found a wooden ship dating back to the revolutionary war era. Some artifacts from this ship can be seen in the 9/11 museum.
rRRgo TIL a hermit lived in the woods of Maine for almost thirty years before being caught burglarizing a cabin