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TIL that there are large shipwrecks buried deep under the cornfields of Kansas.

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eJpk TIL Elephants can be right or left-tusked the same way humans have a dominant hand. Their dominant tusk is usually more worn down.
e0GQD TIL Pinocchio effect is when a person lies, they experience an increase in temperature around the nose and in the orbital muscle in the corner of the eye
KOxwR TIL that one of the slogans of the 1972 Nixon campaign was "They can't lick our Dick".
N7VD6 TIL of the Murray Gell-Man Amnesia Effect, i.e., we give newspapers the benefit of the doubt even after we catch them being inaccurate on subjects we know about. (Term was coined by Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?")
kObM7 TIL that in 1933 Harry Gaines created the first comic book by putting together an 8 page magazine reprinting comic strips as a promotional item for Procter & Gamble