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TIL As a child, Stephen Colbert suppressed his Southern accent to avoid the stereotypes of Southerners he saw on TV. He practiced by trying to imitate news anchors.
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TIL of The Waffle House Index, An Informal Scale Used By The United States Government To Determine Severity of Storms Based on Opening/Closing of Waffle Houses
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TIL that in 2012, Facebook altered the number of positive and negative posts in the news feeds of 689,003 randomly selected users to see if they could make the users more happy or sad. They published the results of this experiment in an academic paper.
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TIL a strong erection is roughly 78% blood by volume but uses less than 3% of the body’s total blood volume at any given time.
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TIL about a Yale study revealing kids who watched "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" learned more and were generally more patient than those who watched "Sesame Street."