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TIL The guys from ‘Workaholics’ actually lived in the house from the show to save money during filming, blowing the minds of fans that stopped by.

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Z867a TIL Smart people believe stupid things thanks to five "intelligence traps". These include "motivated reasoning", which leads us build arguments that rationalise our own intuitive views (even if they are wrong); and "earned dogmatism" - the sense that you know so much you can ignore new information.
0wmP5 TIL Marion stokes recorded tv news programs for over 35 years. With over 71,716 tapes filled with footage, she built the world’s largest independent archive.
1RPO TIL that an African American, Madam C.J. Walker, was the first female millionaire in the United States.
wLyGM TIL about Second Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky of the Russian Imperial Army, who led a charge against the Germans after an attack with chlorine gas on WWI, while his and his men bodies were dissolving because of the chemicals action on their flesh
rRw44 TIL Blockbusting is a technique whereby realtors would buy a home on an all-white street, sell or rent it to a black family, and then buy up the remaining homes from whites at cut-rate prices, then sell them to black families at hefty profits. This is later made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act.