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TIL - Polygraph Tests being able to determine if you’re lying or not is an absolute MYTH.

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x6Bd7 TIL Actress Chelsea Peretti's Older Brother Jonah is the founder of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post
VM4gG TIL that only two fragments of text predating Christianization in (Old High) German still survive, which refer to pagan beliefs. They are magic spells dating from the 9th century.
kPXd TIL that there is indeed an English word rhyming with silver: chilver, meaning a female lamb
P1OjG TIL that after the Battle of Pilska in 811 AD, the Bulgarian emperor Krum the Fearsome had the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros l who was killed in the battle to have his skull be covered in silver in which Krum then used as a drinking cup.
nem4r TIL of a section of passenger railroad in Alaska call the Hurricane Turn. Rather than making scheduled station stops, it operates as a flag-stop meaning passengers in this remote area can simply wave the train down to stop. It's one of the last true flag-stop trains in the U.S.