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TIL that Goose bumps evolved to make our ancestors’ hair stand up, making them appear more threatening to predators.

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9OkX TIL a serial killer in New Orleans stated he would kill again on the night of March 19, 1919, but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing. On that night, all dance halls reached capacity and amateur bands played jazz at hundreds of house parties. There were no murders.
QNdJM TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined
RXvl TIL that in Hungary, there’s a term—"Kacsamesék generáció"—that translates to “the DuckTales generation,” referring to kids who were born in the early-to-mid ‘80s.
NMlP TIL: In the 80’s, there was a show called “The Greatest American Hero” about a man who was gifted a supersuit, but lost the instructions, and had to discover the powers through trial & error
44og TIL Richard Dean Anderson received a special award by the Air Force rarely given to civilians in order to thank him and the other people behind Stargate SG-1 for their very positive portrayal of that organization. Anderson was declared an honorary Air Force brigadier general.