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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brother both had the nickname “Ike”. Dwight was “Little Ike” and his older brother Edgar was “Big Ike”

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LjQV TIL due to widespread videogame addiction, the Korean government banned anyone under the age of 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 am.
6vEl TIL law enforcement and the entire concept of a ‘police force’ is a very new historical concept. Outside of private guards and community vigilantism, policing did not even exist until 1707 in Great Britain - and it was 1829 before police were established in London.
KL4E TIL Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
5dLk TIL Mr. Rogers joined Television because he hated it and decided to change it.
negb7 TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."