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TIL in a study requiring them to write out “door” 30 times in 60 seconds, 68 percent of participants began to doubt that “door” was a real word or showed similar symptoms of ‘jamais vu’

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GAg77 TIL: there are ~1500 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and over 6000 in the Great Lakes combined.
Wk1gA TIL of the Disappearance of West Point Cadet Richard Calvin Cox, who signed out to have dinner with an acquaintance on January 14, 1950, and was never seen again. He remains the only West Point Cadet to have disappeared without a trace.
kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
RdWa TIL A Green Bay Packers fan regularly donated blood in order to afford tickets to games. He later found out that he had a potentially deadly blood disease that was only preventable through blood donation. He had without knowing it been saving his life the entire time.
78Jn7 TIL Byron (Low-Tax) Looper, the Nominee for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, who decided the only way to win was to murder his opponent. Despite being the only person left on the ballot, he still lost the election and was sentenced to life in prison.