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TIL doodling while listening, to tedious or boring information, may significantly help improve remembering it

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pYawQ TIL Jack Brutus was a mastif who served as the mascot of Company K of the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Brutus is remembered for his snoring problem and was the second loudest in the camp.
neW9b TIL of Rita Crundwell, a small town employee who embezzled $54 million from her employer, openly lived a lavish lifestyle that included over 300 horses, and for the most part no one noticed anything was wrong.
r1aM TIL That the Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong was home to 33,000 residents all of which lived in hundreds of interconnected high rise buildings crammed into a 210m x 120m space. The construction was so dense that sunlight didn’t filter down to the lower levels. Photos in link.
e0Leg TIL George A. Romero wrote a whole screenplay for a Resident Evil movie after watching a playthrough of the first game, but Capcom rejected it.
OQW1 TIL that in WWII, the US Army asked Americans to loan their dogs to the war effort. The dogs’ handlers even sent letters home to their owners for Christmas and to inform them of their dog’s performance throughout the war.