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TIL Pornography users found to be more supportive of women and hold less sexist views than nonusers in representative US sample.

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AD9xn TIL that in 1988, a man with OCD and extreme germophobia tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. However, he survived, and the bullet completely eliminated his mental disorder without causing any other damage to his brain.
kJVX1 TIL that Warren Buffett made over 99% of his wealth AFTER the age of 65
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
ZnYD TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy once worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center and was described by co-workers as being kind, solicitous and empathetic.
Raaa TIL a man in India carved a 360ft tunnel through a mountain after his wife died because medical attention could not be brought to her in time.