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TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)

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e066b TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."
4kMG5 TIL of a "rehabilitated" member of Al-Qaeda who tried to assassinate Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of the Interior by sticking a pound of plastic explosive in his anal cavity. The target survived, stating "I did not want him to be searched, but he surprised me by blowing himself up"
L7w9 TIL there is a logical fallacy called the fallacy fallacy, the fallacy of overusing fallacy in the analysis of arguments
awL6b TIL That the brain can be fooled into seeing colour images, when a coloured grid is overlayed across a black and white image.
LQQlr TIL Leeches are edible, but you have to take their heads off before eating, because they could anchor onto your throat on their way down.