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TIL that at restaurants that don't print dollar signs next to prices on their menus, customers will spend more

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oZ4E TIL Anyone in the US Military system can send classified evidence of wrongdoing to their congressional representative if reporting it up their chain of command fails to produce results
xV8n0 TIL that the majority of Americans teenagers are still virgins by the time they hit eighteen, and the number using birth control has increased over time.
wLDoY TIL Gambler's fallacy, the erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future. In 1913, in a game of roulette, the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, the probability of the sequence is 1 in 66.6 million.
neX1B TIL of Castle Bravo, the largest bomb detonated by the USA. It was roughly 1000 times more power than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and had a fireball 4.5 miles (7.2 km) in diameter 1 second after the detonation.
a8Jxb TIL the etymology of pumpernickel bread basically translates to "devil's fart" referring to an inevitable outcome due to it being hard to digest