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TIL that only one of the guards of the Standford Prison Experiment was particularly brutal, and the more brutal he became, the more prominently he faked a southern accent.

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Gw5J TIL of “Decimal Time,” a unit of time that divides the day into 10 hours, an hour into 100 minutes, and a minute into 100 seconds.
D1lKg TIL that the first "phone book" contained no phone numbers and wasn't a book. It was a sheet with the names of 50 people and businesses in New Haven, CT that owned a telephone
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