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TIL of the Szondi Test, a test designated to explain your subconscious drive through varying photos of 18-19th century mental asylum patients and choosing the one that scares you the most.

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kO6JB TIL of Rosalynn McGinnis; She was kidnapped at the age of 12 by her stepfather and smuggled into Mexico, where she had 9 children fathered by her kidnapper. At the age of 32, 20 years after her kidnapping, her neighbors helped her and 8 of her children escape their captor and return to the U.S.
lvEA TIL there’s an open source brand of cola that’s under the GNU Public License and has been through several revisions.
R7v8w TIL that the US bombed the South indiscriminately with pesticides to try to eradicate fire ants but instead killed native insects and birds that otherwise would have kept them in control
QJVdd TIL that Disney sent imaginears to Enchanted Forest (Salem , Or) to ride Mondor, so they could later build Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters using the same technology .
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.