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TIL When you tell someone a goal or a thing you’re planning on doing, it chemically satisfies your brain in a manner that’s similar to having actually completed the goal.

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mdR TIL the man who assassinated Pres. Garfield danced his way to the executioner
KYw54 TIL that Duff McKagan (Guns and Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Jim Matheos (Fates Warning), Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue), Ryan Lewis (Lewis and Macklemore), Sir Mix A Lot, two Nobel Prize Winners, and Bill Gates' mother all went to Roosevelt High School, a public school in Seattle.
lo55V TIL that due to a copyright issue, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain, and can be downloaded for free on the internet. It is currently the most downladed film on the Internet Archive, with 3.1 million downloads.
R78vj TIL Coca-Cola was originally made when it’s creator, Civil War Colonel John Pemberton, was wounded and became addicted to morphine. Coca-Cola was the result of his search for a substitute.