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TIL Jehovahs Witnesses approach businesses just as often as personal residences and see it as part of their mission.

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O8NX TIL Kat Cole Turned Cinnabon Into A $1 Billion Brand, and she doesn’t have a Bachelor’s Degree.
R841 TIL that a man robbing a Sprint store painted his face gold as a disguise. Afterwards he was having trouble breathing and died wheezing shortly after the robbery took place. And the witnesses were still able to identify him making his “disguise” useless.
wLEWE TIL that in early 20th century doctors had a biased understanding of human anatomy because of only having access to the cadavers of poor people. In anatomy classes, they were used to the enlarged adrenal glands (which was actually caused by stress from poverty) and thought this was the normal size
KXa TIL the word “lullaby” comes from the Hebrew meaning “Lilith, begone”. It was a prayer to keep children safe from the demon woman.
jN4rQ TIL during China's Cultural Revolution, in one province, there were multiple gruesome instances of cannibalism (not due to hunger) motivated purely by ideological zeal