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TIL that the majority of Darwin Award winners, nearly ninety percent, are male.

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DOZp TIL only 13% of Molly seized in NY contained MDMA. The synthetic formula mimics some of the effects but constantly changes to avoid regulation. Any time the gov’t bans a compound, the chemists simply alter the formula with no regard to the effect of its users, targeting 12-17 yr olds as guinea pigs.
Ypp7P TIL that cats can recognize their owners voices, just never evolved to care
x6MXk TIL about the Good Friday prayer for the Jews, a catholic prayer for Jews to convert. Overtime as antisemitism lessened the phrasing of the prayer was changed. From Jews being described as Perfidis to faithless to somewhat complementing Jews as the first to hear the word of God
VBMBQ TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".
loO4A TIL that the first documented case of a ‘mail order bride’ / ‘catfishing’ was in 1539, when Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves based on a painting of her he was sent. He found her so unattractive that he tried to send her back to Germany, and when he couldn’t, divorced her 6 months later.