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TIL 30% of colleges have rejected applicants based on their social media accounts.

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loMRA TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA could identify KGB cars in the Soviet Union because they used windscreen wipers compared to the rest of the public who didn’t. The KGB continued to use windscreen wipers to maintain a visual on their targets. Especially during bad weather. Link P219
b9YeZ TIL that Karl Marx, George Michael and Douglas Adams are all buried in the same cemetery (Highgate Cemetery) in London
9Yk8D TIL about the "nocebo" effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect. This was demonstrated when a man tried to OD on antidepressants and required IV treatment for low blood pressure, which returned to normal when he was told the pills were fakes
xby7 TIL Henry Ford decided to mass-produce his cars with controls on the left partially for the convenience for passengers exiting directly onto the curb, “especially … if there is a lady to be considered”.
gMeXW TIL that Noodles, guitarist for the The Offspring kept his job as a high school janitor for three months after the band got big because he promised his boss he wouldn't quit till the end of the school year