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TIL that the Georgia Guide Stones were likely made by a guy named Herbert H. Kersten, who was a physician from Fort Dodge, Iowa.

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VgZm TIL a football player went to prison for five years on a phony rape charge. Upon his release she approached him saying “‘I will go through with helping you but it’s like at the same time all that money they gave [me] I don’t want to have to pay it back”
l7EBK TIL during visit to a state built flat in communist Poland Picasso spontaneously drew a painting on a wall of some random folks living room It was painted over in 1953 by a couple who lived there and couldn’t handle hundreds of strangers wanting to come in and stare at their wall.
0xwL TIL of the Rosenthal Effect: Telling a teacher a student is smart changes how the teacher interacts with the student - and in one study, raised childrens’ IQ by 25 points in tests 9 months apart
w5R8 TIL that when a man tried suing PepsiCo after allegedly finding a mouse in his Mountain Dew, he lost when a vet testified that if a mouse had been in his Mountain Dew, it would not have been identifiable by the time he opened the can.
b9eNZ TIL Apples originated in Kazakhstan and wild apples can taste like roses, strawberries, popcorn, anise, and many other flavors. 90% of modern apples can be traced back to 2 trees.