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Today I learned: People in the 17th century actually believed in vampires

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wor8J TIL Adolf Hitler was a cartoonist for the army newspaper during World War I
5YAQP TIL: In 1982 Xerox management watched a film of people struggling to use their new copier and laughed that they must have been grabbed off a loading dock. The people struggling were Ron Kaplan, a computational linguist, and Allen Newell, a founding father of artificial intelligence.
6rDX TIL Dam Son, the kid in the yearbook meme, grew up to be a respected theoretical physicist.
a87o TIL - After Mao grabbed power in China there were so many suicides in Shanghai that people were afraid to walk near skyscrapers for fear that suicides might land on them.