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TIL that the “Cheerleader Effect” (people look more attractive when they’re in a group than when they’re alone) coined by Barney Stinson in the TV Show ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has been the subject of a scientific study which confirmed the theory.

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rNm0o TIL some old Mongolian names are deliberately 'disparaging' to fool bad spirits/diseases into believing a child has already been afflicted. e.g. Sorqaqtani, "Pox girl". Others express frustration, e.g. "Oghul-qaimish", 'next time a boy'.
loPXG TIL that stop signs have 8 sides because in 1923, it was suggested that the more dangerous an upcoming road was, the more sides a traffic sign should have. Circles (infinite number of sides) designated the riskiest hazards, octagons the second-most dangerous, and rectangles were informational.
168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
4krmg TIL Dave Grohl wrote and recorded the entire Foo Fighters debut album in six days all by himself
0do0j TIL about the Springfield Three, an unsolved missing persons case from 1992 in which two friends and a mother disappeared from a home in Springfield, Missouri. Their cars and personal belongings were left behind, with no signs of a struggle except a broken porch light globe.