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TIL that American Young Earth creationist Kent E. Hovind made a $250,000 offer to anyone who could meet a set of requirements he said would prove evolution.

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eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
Wlmo TIL of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a bridge whose support towers are so tall and far apart that, due to the curvature of the earth, are almost two inches farther apart at the top than the bottom.
4Aag TIL that lead exposure correlates with low IQ and aggresssion, and that many violent areas in the world still use lead gasoline
epdXD TIL While common among humans, facial expressions of anger and aggression are rare in great apes, and are not described for gorillas and orangutans
gMar7 TIL Van Morrison purposefully recorded a whole album with really low effort songs to get out of a contract in the 60s, including gems like "Want A Danish?" and "Ring Worm"