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TIL the Opposite of a ‘Vicious Cycle’ is called a 'Virtuous Cycle.’ It is used to describe When Positive events or changes cause more and more positive events in a cascading effect.

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X0DAP TIL FDR survived an assassination attempt 3 weeks before taking office. After a speech in Miami, six shots were fired at FDR from 16 feet away. FDR wasn't hit because a woman in the crowd grabbed the shooter as he fired. She briefly lost hearing in one ear and her cheek was "smudged with gunpowder."
jglE TIL ‘The Starry Night’ depicts Vincent Van Gogh’s view from the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.
5vxQ TIL that Howard Stern ran for Governor of New York in 1994 promising to limit road work to night hours. He eventually withdrew, but later that year, The Howard Stern Bill was signed into law which limited road construction in New York City and Long Island to night hours.
lbea TIL that California has a higher population than the entirety of Canada.
8adja TIL that the Simpsons character Ned Flanders is named after Flanders Street in Portland Oregon, where the show's creator, Matt Groening grew up.