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TIL of the “next-in-line” effect—a phenomenon that causes people to regularly forget the names of the people they meet for the first time because they’re too focused on worrying about what they’ll say next to that person.

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OEpL TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they “felt gay”.
7MM7 TIL cocaine addiction treatment is 7 times more effective in reducing cocaine consumption than law enforcement.
wLpDo TIL when Citroen released a van named Jumpy, they renamed it Dispatch in English-speaking markets.
DQ0pD TIL of WWII vet Bert Shepard, the only man to ever pitch in Major League Baseball with an artificial leg
k5w7 TIL Milk Duds were originally supposed to be perfectly round. Since making them perfectly round was found to be impossible, the pieces became known as “duds”, and the name stuck.