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TIL of the recency illusion, the belief that a word or phrase is a recent phenomenon, when it has a long established usage.

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oNVr TIL A University of Arizona study found 72% of shopping carts contain fecal bacteria and there is more fecal bacteria on a shopping cart handle than in a typical bathroom.
vP6gD TIL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Was Distributed Through a Mafia-Owned Film Company
gDOW TIL Robert Lincoln, Abe Lincoln’s son, was in line at an elevated station platform. The train mistakenly moved causing him to fall through an opening, but he was pulled up just in time to be saved. The hero was Edwin Booth, brother of the man who went on to assassinate Abe Lincoln 1-2 years later.
kJ0ld TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
R5xYl TIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.