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TIL A Study Found Religious Children Are Meaner Than Secular Children

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bjP7 TIL that Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo were two magicians from the early 20th century who were bitter rivals. While Ching Ling Foo was genuinely Chinese, Chung Ling Soo was actually a New Yorker named William Robinson.
Y77oB TIL about Delhi’s Sabharwal family has got the rare distinction of being the only family where every single member is a doctor for the past five generations.
75nO TIL that “The Hound” is the same man responsible for the word “Yarp”. Actor Rory McCann played both Sandor “The Hound” Clegane in “Game of Thrones”, and Michael “Lurch” Armstrong the stock-boy/henchman in “Hot Fuzz”.
M7gBV TIL LeBron James has played 1703 total NBA games, regular season and playoffs, in his 20 year career. This is an AVERAGE of 85.15 games per year. The regular season is 82 games long.
pQZp TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.