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TIL 40% of successful people consider themselves frauds

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W74Pd TIL that in 1885, artists began to develop 'bizarre' Christmas cards picturing things such as clowns, deceased birds, Krampus kidnapping children, half men/half vegetables, and other disturbing imagery to send to loved ones for the holidays
Y70KB TIL the GEICO gecko’s name is Martin, named after The Martin Agency who created him in 1999.
4XjPX TIL Contrary to the popular joke, France is actually the most successful military power in history.
yQdRe TIL for over a decade, NASA used 11 deaf people with damaged vestibular systems (making them immune to motion sickness) to explore how extreme forces might affect astronauts. One test had four men spend 12 straight days in a 20-foot-wide room rotating at 10 revolutions per minute.
b64Z0 TIL the song the “Electric Slide” is about a vibrator