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TIL the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic of 1954 was the result of mass delusion. When the media called attention to it people actually looked at their windshields and saw damage they had never noticed before.

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Oo7Ma TIL that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history.
GYmo5 TIL that the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson US supreme court decision, which upheld that segregation was constitution, has never been explicitly overruled. Technically, with the exception of education, segregation is still constitutional in the USA.
NXwlQ TIL about the "invisible wall," an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through.
YpDLG TIL that the Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The total payout was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 received $500,000 each. All 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc
5YveQ TIL: many enemies in the Dark Souls games were inspired by the manga Berserk. Upon an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, many characters and mobs, like Siegmayer and Artorias, were heavily inspired upon in both art style and fighting style, by their Berserk inspirations, Bazuso and Guts himself.