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TIL American Evangelicals help fund violent anti-gay movement in Uganda

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1vA8 TIL that when in a double-blind test 21 experienced violinists were asked to compare new and old violins the least-preferred was a Stradivarius.
6xY TIL the official name of the # symbol is “octothorpe”
grgR7 TIL The Port of Duluth is the world's farthest inland port accessible to oceangoing ships and is the largest and busiest port on the Great Lakes.
Lv5V TIL When asked, after 50 years of research, what he knew about the reason people sleep, William Dement, founder of Stanford University’s Sleep Research Center, answered, “As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
YpvGr TIL as women enter middle age, they experience a rapid decline in facial attractiveness (regardless of cultural beauty standards) as compared to their male counterparts which scientists believe mirrors their quickly diminishing fertility.