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TIL Cap'n Crunch's real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch

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yQ4v TIL that Thomas Jefferson once said about democracy: “…nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
8e61X TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections
5Qyn TIL John Belushi disappeared off the set of ‘Blues Brothers’ (1980) one night. On a hunch, Dan Aykroyd went to the nearest house with lights on; “Belushi? He came in here an hour ago and raided my fridge. He’s asleep on my couch.” The confused homeowner informed him.
wLxMP TIL following a public petition to release him, at the age of 100 Bill Wallace, an Australian man who had spent several decades in an institution for the criminally insane, was allowed to leave. He refused, reportedly saying "“Don’t be f***ing silly, I live here.”.
NZRQ TIL Empathy in young people has been declining in the US since the 1980’s, with the steepest decline in the 2000’s.