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b9YBj TIL King Frederick II used reverse psychology on his peasants who refused to eat potatoes because they tasted horrible. To stop the food famine he sent his guards to guard fields of potatoes and the peasants started stealing them and growing their own.
j6Vv TIL Globs of white blood cells rained down upon a town in washinton causing residents to fall ill.
Wkvnd TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout probably allowed early typewriter salesmen to impress their customers by being able to easily type out the example word "typewriter" without having learned the full keyboard layout, because "typewriter" can be spelled purely on the top row of the keyboard.
nWxAb TIL that although we use the terms "shock" and "electrocute" interchangeably, electrocution specifically refers to death due to electric shock.
4Km6 TIL - Nearly 1% of women in the U.S. claim to have given virgin births