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TIL the “pencil test” was used during Apartheid in South Africa to decide if a child got to grow up white or “coloured” (biracial). If your hair wasn’t curly enough to hold a pencil, you “passed” as white.

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b97XE TIL the Poorest man in the world is French ex-Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel, who has a net worth of -$6.3 billion
grQ9 TIL that “research on one-day-old babies has found that boys look longer at a mechanical mobile while girls look longer at a face. This, as well as the effects of fetal testosterone on later behavior, is argued to be evidence against the sex differences being only due to socialization.”
1mLO TIL there are shackles at the feet of Lady Liberty
KYdeJ TIL that in the early 1900s, only 7% of Americans used toothpaste until Claude Hopkins marketing campaign to sell Pepsodent after which, the number of people who used toothpaste jumped up to 65%
eXmg TIL that Adolphus Busch, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, referred to his beer as “that slop” and preferred wine.