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TIL the phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener is called Semantic Satiation.

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JYdEv TIL Confucius’s lineage has been recorded for over 2500 years and his bloodline can be traced to today.
8ax4a TIL that archeologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre dated a human settlement in Hueyatlaco Mexico to 250,000 BCE some 200,000+ years before most other estimates. Despite the fact that she confirmed this date through four different scientific tests, her research has remained not widely accepted.
vEB TIL That a film adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Call of Cthulhu” was made in 2005 in the style of a 1930’s silent film.
nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
YZ1v TIL in 2010, a flash mob of black youth showed up at the Iowa State Fair, yelled “It’s beat whitey night!”, and proceeded to assault white fairgoers at random.