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TIL That sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia and anxiety

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v1XV4 TIL that on April Fools’ Day, 1974, prankster Oliver Bickar fooled the town of Sitka, Alaska into thinking that the nearby Mount Edgecumbe was erupting by igniting hundreds of old tires inside the crater
OodnL TIL a town crier needed to be employed in Germany to remind the local populace not to defecate in the river every time its water was drawn for brewing beer
ZnOo TIL that the world’s largest brothel, with 500 rooms, was built in Seattle in 1910. It was so scandalous that the mayor lost his job, and the building became the ordinary Lester Apartments. It was destroyed 40 years later when an air force bomber crashed into it.
PY0kJ TIL Mel Brooks was in the US Army during WW2 and defused German land mines during the American advance into Germany.
D1L4V TIL the founders of Hewlett-Packard flipped a coin to decide which order their names would be put in the company name. Packard won the toss and put Hewlett’s name first.