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TIL that iTunes was purchased by Apple in 2000 and it was called “SoundJam MP”

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lbxG TIL actor Wallace Shawn, while playing Vizzini (“Inconceivable!”) in The Pricess Bride, didn’t understand the movie’s sense of humor. Director Rob Reiner gave him line readings, and he merely imitated them.
Y7kLv TIL when given a full-grown grizzly bear by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1811 (the first ever in the United Kingdom), King George III said he would have preferred a new tie or pair of socks
R5Wg4 TIL that the ancient Olmecs believed in werejaguars, similar to the werewolf in European cultures.
J1rXj TIL in Denmark it's legal to burn the national flag, but illegal to burn foreign (i.e non-Danish) flags
x6r9w TIL that the concept of cognitive dissonance explains why some followers double down when their leader fails - admitting they were wrong is too painful. Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term after infiltrating a 1954 UFO cult whose members became more devoted when their prophecy failed