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TIL that nonviolent protests are more successful than violent ones.

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grZvD TIL: Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
j6G4p TIL about the English village of Eyam. During the bubonic plague outbreak of 1665-6, the inhabitants of Eyam quarantined themselves, in a famous act of self-sacrifice, to prevent the spread of the plague.
M7LA7 TIL that surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week make 37% fewer errors and are 27% more efficient in their procedures.
d7Bd TIL The movie “The Scorpion King 4” is the sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a spinoff of the sequel of a remake that is currently getting a reboot trilogy.
KVba TIL that Victorian maid Kate Webster chopped up her mistresses, boiled her and then assumed her identity. Meanwhile, the skull of her boss wasn’t found with the other body parts and was discovered in the garden of English naturalist David Attenborough 130 years later.