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TIL about the Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people share a misinterpretted memory.

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nyD7 TIL Men who help with housework tend to have more sex.
oRy4o TIL that the word "dude" was first used in the late 1800s as a term of mockery for young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions
M8nA TIL in 1953, following athlete Jim Thorpe’s death, his widow was upset that his native Oklahoma would not memorialize him. Hearing of two random towns in Pennsylvania that were desperate for money, she convinced them to merge and name the new town Jim Thorpe, PA, which it’s still called to this day.
woEgE TIL that the US government actually poisoned alcohol during prohibition
GYmx1 TIL A popular 1865 song was called “Jeff in petticoats”, due to the rumor of the former confederate president trying to escape arrest by disguising himself in his wife’s clothes.