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TIL the phenomenon where you see faces in things (i.e. "The Man On The Moon" or cars) is called Pareidolia

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5eB TIL the youngest person to have been executed in the US was 14 years old. A bible was used to boost him up onto the electric chair, and his trial only lasted 2 and a half hours.
yQWVJ TIL William Harvey Carney was an African American soldier during the American Civil War. Born as a slave, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1900 for his gallantry in saving the regimental colors (American flag) during the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863.
M4GV TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump of 10000 ft survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.
5nZ8 TIL that there is a Japanese urban legend about a spirit who haunts public bathrooms and will ask you if you want red or blue toilet paper.
4jAo TIL of Endicott Peabody, the Episcopalian minister who served Tombstone, Arizona and was a spiritual advisor to Wyatt Earp, also taught all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s children, and presided over the wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.