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TIL that looks are so important in elections that children have a great success rate of picking victors just from photos of the candidate's faces.

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4Xx95 TIL Charlie Hebdo fired it's long time cartoonist for anti-Semitism. When asked to apologise he replied, "I'd rather cut my own balls off."
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GYnDG TIL that Babe Ruth's daughter says that her father was never allowed to be a manager because he would have hired black players