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TIL that Scientists replicated 100 Psychology studies, and fewer than half got the same results

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yWda TIL in 1947 a man survived a botched execution by electric chair. He said that death tasted “like peanut butter” and looked a lot “like shines in a rooster’s tail.”
8jW4 TIL that If the earth would be a 40 year old guy, humans would have been using tools for a week and a half, and just left Africa 8 hours ago to settle around the globe
NWJJ TIL someone anonymously sent St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a $1 million-winning McDonald’s Monopoly piece. Although McDonald’s does not allow the transfer of prizes, they had waived the rule.
OoNbL TIL That the phrase 'flying saucer' used as a substitute for an UFO is the result of a mistaken newspaper report in 1947 of the first well-known UFO sighting by the business mogul Kenneth Arnold who said the speeding aerial was crescent-shaped but moved "like saucers skipping on water".
dpZr TIL that when actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but, when he died over 20 years later, he had left her $300,000.