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TIL Indians are the world’s biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans, according to a new survey.

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lR7B TIL Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He quit the group less than two years later. In 1875 he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation and equality. (Speech in Comments)
xV4dw TIL In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine named The Sopranos as the Greatest TV Show of All Time. The American crime saga created an immortal antihero in James Gandolfini's New Jersey Mob boss, Tony Soprano, presiding over a crew of gangsters who also double as damaged husbands and dads.
oROpE TIL: In 1965, psychology researchers would often lie to elementary school teachers to conduct their experiments. Like this one, called the Pygmalion effect by Rosenthal and Jacobson.
yQ7Yl TIL that some Klan members in Indiana were convinced that the Pope would be on a northbound train. More than a thousand people gathered as it arrived. The only person who got off was a corset salesman. They grilled him for half an hour before they were convinced that he wasn’t the Pope in disguise.
x6w5 TIL Sea Turtles have rectal gills that help them stay underwater longer. They are the only animals that have this adaptation