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TIL that to unintentionally mimic the accent of someone they are talking to, if they have a different accent, is a normal human trait. Psychologists believe it comes from an inbuilt urge to empathise and affiliate with the person you are talking to.

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yQ6Q8 TIL in 1920, candy store owner Christian Kent Nelson, unable to decide between ice cream and chocolate bars, invented an ice cream brick with chocolate coating. He secured an agreement with local chocolate producer Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademarked name "Eskimo Pie".
9jjp TIL Gary Powers survived being shot down in his U2 spy plane from 21km (70,000 feet) altitude over USSR in 1960, but he died after his news reporting chopper ran out of fuel over LA in California in 1977.
loYn5 TIL in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing "false, scandalous, or malicious writing" against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act. This act was in effect until 1801.
781JM TIL: A geochron is an analog clock that displays day and night on a world map, changing over the course of the day, showing the familiar “bell curve” of light and darkness
x67rD TIL there is some chimpanzee populations that inhabit the savanna and act differently then the forest populations for example using caves, filtering drinking water, walking more on two legs than forest chimpz do and more. There is an Arte documentary on YouTube with them filtering water.