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TIL of Missing White Woman Syndrome - the phenomenon of the media’s extensive cover on missing upper middle class white women who disappear compared to missing men, women of color or lower class

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PDmV TIL Joseph Stalin, a man who personally signed the death warrants of 40,000 people, was nominated twice for the Nobel peace prize
0wVgL TIL that Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day, 1642 according to the Julian calendar. But when the British changed to the Gregorian calendar his birthday retroactively changed to January 4, 1643.
yVPYM TIL that Darryl Sabara (Juni from Spy Kids) is married to Meghan Trainor.
grKX TIL Spongebob was right, there is a Leif Erikson Day. And it’s today. Happy Leif Erikson Day, one and all.
WRbA TIL that Bajau people live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and they go spearfishing without scuba gear. Not even oxygen tanks.