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TIL that the archaic study of head shape (Phrenology) is responsible for many sayings. Intelligent people had a "highbrow", stupid people had a "lowbrow", people with balanced attributes' heads were "well-rounded" and psychiatrists would reduce areas of people's brains and were called "shrinks".

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vPmnj TIL that the first Major League Baseball All-Star game - played on July 6, 1933 - was intended to be a one-time event to boost morale during the Great Depression. The American League won over the National League by a score of 4 - 2.
R74v6 TIL when Henry Ford II took control of Ford Motor Co., the first thing he did was fire his grandfather's brutal, union-busting head of security by sending his own second-in-command, a former FBI agent, to deliver the news. Both men drew handguns on each other.
dV5B TIL that Iran has banned the mullet haircut to “confront the cultural assault by the West”.
71j7 TIL Obese men are 4 times less likely to die from suicide than men with a BMI under 21.
Ypd6r TIL that Broccoli and Cauliflower are man-made and never existed naturally, but were rather bred from wild mustard.