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TIL: There is a hate culture within the hearing impaired community

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jRRN TIL Scotland is so barren because most of it belongs to a few dozen of wealthy people who use it as hunting grounds. Huge numbers of deer bred by them destroy all new seedlings.
a8Po TIL During the filming of a scene in the movie Leon: The Professional involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the “police” and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.
ANPRo TIL that deaf children who are heavily exposed to Sign Language in early life will become better readers of written English than those who are not.
ANX44 TIL that sharks have a sixth sense: they have thousands of tiny holes on their head that allow them to sense the diminute electromagnetic fields that all living things emanate.
nexRG TIL: During the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in 1972, police dressed as athletes were planning to sneak attack the kidnappers. But local television crews were broadcasting them on live TV and the kidnappers were made aware of the plan.