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TIL: An American dentist William James Morrison and a confectioner named John C. Wharton helped develop the cotton candy machine in 1897.

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LQAnP TIL about Catherine King and Wayne Adams, who built a floating compound on the west coast of Vancouver Island from salvaged materials and lived on it for more than 30 years.
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
1oNV TIL there are 33,000+ PhD graduates receiving public aid in the United States.
vGJ8 TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.
8exMb TIL virtual reality can induce mild and transient symptoms of depersonalization and derealization