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TIL the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

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g8Ly TIL Montreal has musical swing sets downtown. When in motion, they produce sounds. If you can sync all 3 swings, it creates a song.
vgyL TIL American pediatrician Saul Krugman deliberately infected thousands of mentally disabled children with Hepatitis B between 1950-1972 to further his research in vaccinology. He was made president of the American Pediatric Society in 1972.
KOJlw TIL President Lyndon Johnson established the White House Fellows program in 1964. White House Fellows spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House Staff, the Vice President and there can be as many as 1,000 applicants for the eleven to nineteen fellowships
d8QX9 TIL that in 1970 President Nixon forced the Secret Service to wear absurd uniforms inspired by ceremonial palace guards in Europe. They were so mocked that they lasted one month and were eventually sold to an Iowa marching band.
E1w4d TIL that Mike Patton lead singer of the band Faith No More was the voice for all the screams and howls of the infected in the Will Smith movie I Am Legend