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TIL that in 2006, Wikipedia had to permanently block all IP’s from the U.S. Congress. Why? Because they wouldn’t stop editing each others pages.

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dGLQ TIL that when Parker Brothers tried to introduce a german version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of world, the German government threatened to ban it on the grounds that it might encourage imperialist and militaristic impulses in the nation’s youth.
6EAb7 TIL Harriet Tubman had narcolepsy. She developed it after getting hit in the head with a 2lb weight and suffering a TBI. Wanted ads used to describe her as having “a habit of abruptly falling asleep.”
p8YYO TIL many vessels have a figure of a bare-breasted woman on the bow of the ship because her nakedness would "shame" an angry sea into calm.
7rN5O TIL about the Mere-Exposure Effect, a phenomenon in which people tend to develop preferences for stimuli that are familiar or constantly presented. Stimuli can be people, visuals, words, sounds, etc., and influence interpersonal relationships and advertising.
VBEVQ TIL about the Coronel Church, a train that is believed to be the first one in the Amazon, it was crashed and abandoned in 1879, but was recovered and returned to service in 1912