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TIL Sweden first settled the modern US and is responsible for the Log Cabin structure traditionally believed to be an icon of American pioneers

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77wM TIL Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
16Mwd TIL Cashews actually begin as fruit from a large tropical evergreen tree. The tree produces vibrant red flowers that give way to juicy, apple-like structures—but these aren’t the real fruit. The true cashew “fruit” is the kidney-shaped formation at the end of these so-called apple.
Eld TIL in the 60’s Nazi themed pornographic comics were hugely popular in Israel. Often read by the children of Holocoust survivors, the books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots
RlQ8 TIL the Coen Brothers edited almost all their own films using the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. In spite of his non-existence, Roderick Jaynes has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Fargo and No Country for Old Men.
l7nMA TIL pubic lice are now an endangered species