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TIL Postman’s Park in London contains over 50 plaques that honour individuals who died performing brave acts to save others — like rescuing people from burning buildings, saving children from drowning, or shielding others from accidents.

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D18Pg TIL about the Cloud Act that enables Intelligence Offices to obtain any data from all US based social network
Lmd0 TIL up to 40,000 American women are allergic to their partner’s semen with consequences as severe as diarrhea, hives, and complete loss of consciousness.
8eYQb TIL that during their campaigns leading up to the 1964 United States presidential election, supporters of Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B. Johnson separately created sodas for each candidate. Goldwater’s was called “Gold Water” and Johnson’s was called “Johnson Juice”.
e0ov5 TIL the card game wasn't originally the main focus of the manga Yu-Gi-Oh, it started as one plot device among others in an action shonen about tabletop gaming in general. This changed after it garnered enormous interest among readers
wLY17 TIL the "bacon and eggs" All-American breakfast idea was a PR marketing campaign by Edward L. Bernays (the nephew of Sigmund Freud) for a bacon company in the 1920's.