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TIL 'Acquired tastes' are, in fact, real: we are psychologically conditioned to prefer sensations we have experienced before, even if it wasn't pleasant.

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RMK7 TIL that Bob Jones University Press sells “history” textbooks to hundreds of thousands of homeschooled kids, teaching them that gays are on-par with rapists, the Trail of Tears was a good thing, the KKK was just a “reform movement”, etc.
XE0Rr TIL that the line in Thor: Ragnarok ("We know each other! He's a friend from work!") was actually suggested by a young Make-a-Wish visitor to the movie’s set.
GYNJQ TIL that it was only in 1968 that the Navajo Code Talker program was declassified, and until then the US and not even the Code Talkers own family members had any idea what a big contribution they had made to victory in the Pacific theater during WWII
mJQp TIL that in 1951 the managing director of Guinness Breweries became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe (the golden plover or the grouse). He was unable to confirm the answer using reference books of the time. Shortly after, the Guinness World Records were born.
nWal7 TIL The 1741 HMS Wager shipwreck, 6 months suffering on South Chilean Island, 60 crew mutinied leaving Captain Cheap with all the sick men and no chance to survive. The mutineers arrived in London in 1842. Cheap hiked the Andes, nearly starved in jail but arrived in London to see the mutineers hung.