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5Yp7n TIL that after several years of struggling to get into the music industry, British singer Arnold Dorsey decided to adopt a more "arresting" stage name. His choice? Engelbert Humperdinck.
e0Nxb TIL that pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period. So if you were to conceive in the week before your period, you’d already be approx. 3 weeks pregnant (assuming a 4 week menstrual cycle)!
7r18b TIL one reason why Stalingrad was heavily attacked and defended was the propaganda value to the city, based on it bearing the name of the current leader of the Soviet Union at that time. About 2 million died in the Battle of Stalingrad.
leeV TIL that there is a theory that humans were not fully conscious until 3000 years ago, and that instead people heard their consciousnesses as a separate voice that commanded them, and this may have been the source of the beliefs of many ancient gods.
p85AA TIL the "peace sign" people often do in their foreheads for selfies means "stupid" in the ASL