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TIL A Study Found Religious Children Are Meaner Than Secular Children

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8e0RK TIL about Herman Davis, a World War I soldier renowned for his extraordinary marksmanship. With just his Springfield rifle and open sights, he took out five enemy soldiers from 1,000 yards away. He humbly described it as “just a good shootin' distance.”
d8AWd TIL: British author Agatha Christi absolutely detested her character Hercule Poirot, even going as far as to call him, "A detestable, bombastic, egocentric, little creep." She only kept writing books about his adventures at the behest of her editors, because they sold so well.
xQZb TIL a 1981 arcade in Chicago put a camera in one of their machines so players who got a high score could put their picture on the high score screen. It lasted one day before a guy used it to take a picture of his junk
LQLZ9 TIL that Danny Glover is the great great grandson of Harriet Tubman
ao9N TIL So many Americans are injured due to bagels each year, emergency rooms have a special code for them, BRI (Bagel-Related Incident).