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TIL about Channel Drift which results in a shift from informative, quality programming aimed at educated viewers, toward sensational, ratings-based, and/or reality-TV programming.

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kO4eB TIL since the Federal Witness Protection Program was started in 1971, not one of the 8,500 witnesses or the 9,900 family members participating has been harmed. According to Gerald Shur, its creator, 95% of those who enter the program are "what we call criminals".
7rg7r TIL of Ryan M. Kelly who found out he won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the Charlottesville's attack on the same day he quit his job as a photo journalist to go work for a brewery.
nWoMP TIL the difference between dinner and supper. Dinner was the largest meal of the day - historically, lunch was called dinner. However, dinner slowly migrated later in the day until it overlapped with supper.
rxZ1 TIL that Marine Col. Henry Pierson Crowe served during WWI, the Banana Wars, WWII, and the Korean War, and won both the Silver Star and the Bronze Star on Guadalcanal, telling his men “You’ll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!”
wL5Qo TIL scientists have discovered how to implant false memories in mice. While false memories have been induced behaviorally for decades, and we can now boost our memory capacity, only recently have we been able to neurologically implant memories by filling neurons with laser light.