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TIL happy hours are illegal in Indiana

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1Zw7 TIL there is a scientific term for a person’s tendency to modify their behavior when they know they’re being observed. It’s referred to as the Hawthorne effect.
v1bWD TIL "decimation was a form of Roman military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed.." Was checking the rona fatality rates when I saw Italy at the 10 percent milestone.
1PYX TIL human twins can have 2 different fathers, but the same mother. This is called bi-paternal twins.
1xa4 TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast
xVak1 TIL the computer program that created the THX "Deep Note" (before a movie screening) was coded to be random. The audio you hear was recorded one time and can never be recreated exactly by that computer again.