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TIL Elijah Wood was 18 when he started filming as Frodo
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TIL in 1927 the United States Supreme Court ruled to allow for the compulsory sterilization (for example, cutting of the fallopian tubes) of those deemed to be “unfit” and “feeble minded”. This decision was seen as a way to improve the human race by genetic selection.
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TIL that the Museum of London had a whole exhibit for a chunk of sewage
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TIL that while Alcoholics Anonymous claims the program, based on self-reported data, worked for 75 percent of people, a psychiatry professor from Harvard Medical School found the success rate to be actually only 5 to 8 percent.
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TIL that Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm.
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TIL: No human has won a tournament standard chess game against a high spec computer since 2005.