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TIL that the phrase ‘Founding Fathers’ was coined in 1916, 140 years after the US’s founding, by President Warren Harding

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6E5Om TIL: Punchcards were invented to solve the problem of the 1890 US Census. It took 8 years to process the data of the 1880 census, so Herman Hollerith invented punch cards for tabulation, ushering in the era of data storage, databases, and supercomputers.
V8VQ TIL Jules Verne penned a sequel to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” called “The Mysterious Island” that told Captain Nemos back story.
6E6Om TIL Martha Mitchell effect is the process by which a psychiatrist labels the patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional and misdiagnoses accordingly.
GYQVj TIL - The 1970's children's book "Masquerade" held a real-life treasure hunt for a golden rabbit that ended when somebody cheated to find it.
JYbKv TIL about the Kinsey Scale. Created by Alfred Kinsey in 1948. Kinsey thought that sexuality was fluid and could change over time. He created a scale 7 point scale with 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. The seventh point X is for asexuals.