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TIL: That the story of Robert Heft, the high schooler who is credited to have designed the US flag with 50 stars, is a likely a made up story

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yQGOe TIL about John Carpenter. The first winner to ever win "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", used none of his lifelines until the final question, when he called his dad. He told him that he didn't need any help on the final question, but he just wanted to let him know that he was about to win $1,000,000.
xMdb TIL that a woman in India once calculated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers - 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 - correctly in just 28 seconds.
P1bJn TIL there has never been a case of fentanyl overdose through skin contact or accidental inhalation by police that was confirmed by toxicology reports. Police coming into contact and reporting getting an accidental overdose were actually psychologically induced: panic attack vs. opioid overdose.
YDNd TIL that several schools in Utah banned students from wearing the phrases “Drug Free” and “Stay sober” due to a violent straight edge subculture.
N7kYE TIL of the Köhler Effect: when one less-capable person works harder to match more-capable people in the same task. Köhler Effect is strongest when a less-able man is paired with a more-capable woman, (thought to be because it's more embarrassing to men to be outperformed by a woman than a man).