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TIL about May Whitley, a self-defence expert in the 1930s
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TIL “Scared Straight” interventions are ineffective and may in fact increase delinquency relative to no treatment at all
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Today I learned that the family name of Monty Python veteran, John Cleese, was actually Cheese, which his father felt was embarrassing, and changed it to Cleese when he enlisted during WWI. He later made it official by a deed poll in 1923.
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TIL that gay marriage is not legal in Germany, and gay couples are not allowed to adopt a child together.
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TIL Cordell Hull was Secretary of State under FDR for 11 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing the UN
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TIL a nude photographer got around censorship by painting an “abstract art” piece which was really a QR code to his original pictures.