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TIL Duvets were only introduced to the UK via a shop King's Row, West London in May 1964. Yet today it's practically impossible to find someone who still sleeps under blankets.

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MeJab Today I Learned about Wilson “One-Man Regiment” Watson, a Medal of Honor recipient from the Battle of Iwo Jima. He is credited for being the inspiration of John Wayne’s “Shooting from the hip” style, along with single-handedly killing 90 Japanese Soldiers during the battle.
PRyL TIL Snapple failed to beat the world record for biggest ice pop when 16 tons of frozen juice from a freezer truck melted faster than expected. Spectators fled to higher ground as firefighters hosed away the melted juice.
KOG7B TIL - the word 'cult' and 'cultist' were originally used to describe a 'faith healer'.
78GDp Today I learned: A canary trap is a technique to identify an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to several suspects and observing which version gets leaked.
yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.