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TIL Brain Training games don’t make you any smarter.

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Qxme TIL That Hobby Lobby makes over 1/3 of it’s 401K profits by investing in companies that make the birth control treatments that they say violates their religious freedoms.
wLep7 TIL in 2006, the Mythbusters tested the myth that cardboard used in cereal boxes are healthier than the sugary cereal itself. Two groups of mice were given either item and the box group ended up eating each other while both Mythbusters made remarks about it. The myth was promptly never shown on TV.
GY5Mg TIL Galvani's nephew, Giovanni Aldini, electrically stimulated the limbs of a dead man in public
1an54 TIL Cuban cigar factories hire "lectores" who read stories to the cigar-makers. [Video, 2:15]
Orye TIL in the ancient Olympics, false-starters were whipped