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TIL of the First Night Effect, where essentially only half your brain sleeps when you're in a new environment.

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mxdAO TIL Jordan Peele decided to make "Us" a full-on horror film due to people being generally confused over the genre of "Get Out".
rNdK4 TIL early credit cards were launched in "drops", wherein banks would mail unsolicited cards to tens of thousands of customers at once. The banks then leveraged that customer base to get local stores to accept the cards. Over 100 million cards were distributed before drops were made illegal in 1970.
P1Lnn TIL the terms Red States and Blue States was not widely used until the 2000 US Presidential Election
90yX TIL that Vanna White hasn’t actually turned any letters since 1997, hasn’t worn an outfit more than once on the show and holds the Guinness World Record for clapping.
MvkA TIL It Costs Less to House the Homeless, Than to Leave Them on the Street