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TIL Beyoncé got her name from her mother's maiden name.

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Enno TIL two psychologists, to study self-deception, created a provocative questionnaire with the assumption that a response of “no” to any of the questions would be a lie. Some of these questions include: “Have you ever wanted to rape or be raped by someone” “Have you ever enjoyed your bowel movements”
Z8WZD TIL Italic type was named that because it was designed in Italy
1Zgd TIL that women in poor countries with worse health tend to be attracted more to masculine looking men, while women in rich countries prefer more feminine looking men
4Xgrw TIL about Cemetary Guns and Coffin Torpedoes. Flintlock devices placed inside coffins or rigged with trip wires on top of fresh graves in cemetaries in order to deter bodysnatchers from stealing fresh corpses for financial gain.
grKl7 TIL of the Hundred Horse Chestnut, the largest and oldest chestnut in the world which according to legend was large enough to give shelter to 100 knights and their horses inside its trunk during a storm, hence its name, the girth of the trunk is 57.9 meters (190 ft)