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TIL the term 'jaywalking' was promoted and popularized by the automobile industry to blame pedestrians for traffic issues

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g10b TIL: An 80s pop song has been online since 2002 (YouTube since 2007) that no one has been able to identify despite extensive research.
oBJ8K TIL John D. Rockerfeller once had an apprenticeship making $16 per month & his dream as a kid was to make $100,000. His personal fortune ended up being $1.4 billion by 1937 which makes him the wealthiest person in recent history.
e9X4 TIL that half of men in Western Europe are the descendants of a single Bronze-age king
Z8lZa TIL in 1973, two men went to police claiming to have been abducted by aliens. The police thought they were lying, so they left them alone in the room with a secret recording device. To their surprise, they kept on talking about what happened and how scared they were.
p8WRN TIL: Breakfast being “the most important meal of the day” originated in a 1944 marketing campaign launched by General Foods, the manufacturer of Grape Nuts, to sell more cereal. During the campaign, grocery stores and radio ads promoted the importance of breakfast.