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DQBWY TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
p81Wp TIL that EVERY word you speak in your language will inevitably disappear or change their meaning in average 150 years. That's happening with every language last 1000 years. But there is a core of average 200 words that stay as a core of language and their meaning never change.
E11P7 TIL The Ironic Process Theory (a.k.a. the White Bear Problem) which refers to the psychological process whereby deliberate attempts to suppress certain thought makes them more likely to surface. For example, try to not think about a White Bear.
xyN7 TIL the ‘Pringles Man’ has a name, and that name is “Julius”.
KYayQ TIL that Switzerland disbanded its bicycle infantry regiment as late as 2003.