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TIL about 19% of Americans believed the government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks

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6e58 TIL that while Mother’s Day is the busiest for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.
wZbW TIL Charles Schwab met a bunch of black American soldiers on a boat’s commissary in 1919, and as an experiment offered to lend them each a dollar. He gave them all his address, if they wanted to pay him back. 138 of 154 men did, almost 90%.
PYaAe TIL that the Hershey's Kisses Holiday Commercial has aired every season since 1989
Y7XYv TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
4k9pJ TIL Aristotle wrote the heart has only three chambers, and that tiny organisms can be generated spontaneously out of inanimate matter. It is now known that the left atrium is very difficult to observe and took Louis Pasteur to prove that growth doesn't happen in a container without micro-organisms