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TIL The Martha Mitchell effect occurs when a medical professional labels a patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis.

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VMalQ TIL Sigmund Freud considered believing in a single god to be a delusion. He also stated that religion "comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion".
j6X4M TIL that blue reflectors on the road mean a fire hydrant is nearby.
jNnep TIL The 1957 Chrysler Imperial had a compound curved windshield and the first use of curved side glass on a standard production car. Into the 1960s, Imperial continued to be one of the longest cars built in the United States
VMQPQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin, to drive sales of his almanac, predicted that a rival publisher would die on a certain date. When the rival didn’t die, Franklin published his obituary anyway and claimed the rival was an imposter. After the rival’s death, Franklin commended the imposters for stopping.
neAmB TIL that Six Flags New Orleans was permanently closed after damage from hurricane Katrina. Despite several proposals to redevelop it, it’s still sitting there in a state of decay.