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TIL The music most of us think as ‘circus theme song music’ is actually entitled Entry of the Gladiators

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rRQMo TIL that when practicing for the D-Day landings in "Exercise Tiger" at least 749 Americans were killed by friendly fire and a "wolf pack" of 6 German E-boats who stumbled on the LST ships in the dark. D-Day was nearly called off because 10 officers who knew the exact plans went missing.
6E40l TIL Coffee was originally chewed. The very first African tribes who consumed coffee actually ground the berries up, added animal fat and rolled their new inventions into little balls which they consumed.
xZYo TIL the FDA prohibits products from being packed in containers deceptively larger than what they contain. (Potato chips are exempt because the extra air protects them from being crushed.)
j0oN TIL why some people stay irrationally calm and take no action when faced with an immediate or impending disaster. It’s called “normalcy bias”.
4kgj6 TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.