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TIL Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is when you learn/talk about something and then see it everywhere. Or is it just our iPhones listening to us?!

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x6pYb TIL Robert Remus AKA Sgt. Slaughter from the WWE never served in the military despite his character's gimmick. He received several Vietnam War draft deferments and even opposed the war, often protesting and demonstrating within the antiwar movement.
p8rp8 TIL Former WWE wrestler Chris Masters "bear-hugged" a 3 meter (10 foot) tree and uprooted it to save his mother who was trapped inside her burning house.
OooVL TIL Uranus has a magnetic field that "flickers" because the magnetic field is so off-kilter with its rotational axis that magnetic lines will snap apart and reconnect as it rotates. According to one astronomer, "Uranus is a geometric mess."
4wG5 TIL that Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926. 1,000 officers and 15,000 volunteers searched for her until she was found in a hotel, registered under a different name.
ZpXBQ TIL that the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK received a number of complaints about the "Crazy Frog" commercial, due to viewers concerns that Crazy Frog "appeared to have a visible penis and scrotum"