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TIL Violent, often fatal, attacks on homeless Americans outnumber all other categories of hate crimes combined.

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wj68 TIL there’s a miniature TV monitor inside the Big Bird costume that gives the puppeteer a third person’s view of himself and his surroundings.
X0paR TIL that from 1959-67, the US had a quasi-secret military base in Greenland built in tunnels dug under the snow. Camp Century was a scientific research station on arctic bases, but was really a cover for a second strike nuclear launch site.
p80gA TIL the inventor of the sewing machine had a dream where cannibals were going to cook him. In the dream their spears had holes at the tip that they raised up and down. This inspired him for the breakthrough of the machine, putting a hole at the tip instead of the base.
lwMB TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.
pY9OO TIL of the approximately 8,000 amphibian species currently alive, about 90% of them (about 7200) are just frogs and toads.