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VGdk TIL that a 2005 study found that men who were made to feel insecure about their manliness would overcompensate and were more likely to buy a big car, support the Iraq War and displayed homophobic attitudes.
wjxJ TIL Alexander Graham Bell took credit for inventing the phone, but Antonio Meucci invented it 5 years earlier… A problem with is patent gave Bell the chance to claim the invention
NXpeP TIL the US Treasury confirmed that penny press souvenir machines do not violate Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code on mutilation of currency
epyGk TIL Solitary confinement causes prisioners to have difficulty separating reality from their own thoughts, which may lead to confused thought processes, perceptual distortions, paranoia and psychosis. Physical effects include lethargy, insomnia, palpitations and anorexia
QJAJ9 TIL The actor that portrayed Scruff McGruff the Crime Dog was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison for possesion of Marijuana and Grenade Launchers.