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TIL Benjamin Franklin turned someone who hated him into a fan by only writing him a letter asking for a favor - Now called the Benjamin Franklin Effect

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Z8oAR TIL that the first ever phone to run in an Android system is the HTC Dream also known as HTC G1 or T-Mobile G1, as it was set to revolutionize the smartphone market. Aside from running in an Android system, it had 3G support and 3.2 inch screen smartphone and it was released in 2008
0wYgv TIL in an Aalto University study, participants were shown the movie Memento while making use of fMRI technology to see how the brain remembers and interprets events from clues. Unprecedented in the setup was that the subjects freely viewed the featured film in its entirety in the brain scanner.
Ed9W TIL that the Austrian army accidently fought itself and lost 10 000 men.
QNxAa TIL there has only been one fatal attack on a person by a Kodiak bear since 1921 and a bear injuring a person occurs about once every other year.
ANMrd TIL that Charles Joughin, a baker on the Titanic, survived by getting spectacularly drunk