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TIL Fears can be passed down to you from your parents and grandparents, just like all your other genetic traits.

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8aGyb TIL Breakfast wasn’t regarded as the most important meal of the day until an aggressive marketing campaign by General Mills in 1944. They would hand out leaflets to grocery store shoppers urging them to eat breakfast, while similar ads would play on the radio.
d8A4B TIL Prince hated comparisons to Jimi Hendrix saying the only thing in common they had was being black.
yApe TIL some hospitals will fake CPR for the sake of a family
xEKD TIL a Russian man, mad with an unsolicited credit card offer, scanned, edited, printed, and sent it back. The bank approved 0% interest, no fees, unlimited credit, and paying $182,000 for cancelling his account. They sued him years later, he won, and he’s counter-suing them for closing his account.
6jVX TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.