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TIL An amendment abolishing the US Senate was proposed by socialist Representative Victor Berger in 1911, due to his belief that the House was corrupt as well as useless to the country as a whole.

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xrlD TIL that the horse head used in The Godfather was a real horse head, not a prop. John Marley was not informed beforehand, so his scream was authentic, not scripted.
Z4jB TIL a 89 year old veteran developed a bladeless bird-friendly wind turbine in 2011
KO466 TIL in 2005 there was an erroneous Emergency Alert TV/radio broadcast in Connecticut that called for the evacuation of the entire state. Residents did not evacuate, and the most common response was to simply change the channel.
gMxpD TIL about truth default theory. Most people will not be able detect deception among those who are part of their culture, instead believing until there is a massive amount of evidence that says otherwise.
v4jK TIL an autistic kindergartner, his mother, and his grandmother were handcuffed at a school. The child was taken to a psych ward and the grandmother had a rib broken, all because of a 5 y/o tantrum that wasn’t handled properly by the school.