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TIL 3 of the first 5 US presidents died on July 4th.
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TIL that the widely accepted "Learning Styles" theory "everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)" has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.
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TIL about the Tri-State Tornado - the deadliest Tornado in U.S. History that traveled 235 miles killing 695 people
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TIL there is a French superstition that magpies are the reincarnated souls of evil nuns.
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TIL Former US President Calvin Coolidge enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”
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TIL there was a form of Icelandic witchcraft involving “Necropants” where someone would flay the skin off the legs of a friend’s corpse, steal a coin from a widow, and then wear the skin with the coin in the scrotum. The ritual was supposed to bring wealth.