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TIL of "Banner blindness". It is when you subconsciously ignore ads and anything that resembles ads.

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l7bx7 TIL that in 1903, when Pierre Curie learned that he was going to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, he threatened to refuse it if he could not share it with his wife, Marie Curie, who was not to receive it.
Ydov TIL the first African-American female serial killer was Clementine Barnabet. In 1909-1912 she invaded homes in Texas and Louisiana and killed entire families with an axe. The bodies were then arranged as part of a “Voodoo” ritual connected to her mysterious evangelical church.
egob TIL that Barney once made a dick joke on an episode of The Flintstones.
N7dGE TIL that during the 2000 US census, more than 87,000 Americans listed their home state as their ancestry. Texas had the most, with over 32,000.
71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.