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TIL A study has found that some soldiers are so attached to their bomb disposal robots that they treat them as if they had personalities, mourn them if they became damaged by enemy explosives; and even hold funerals for them when they ‘die’

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6ErAl TIL that "The Pocket Book of Boners" (1941), by Dr. Seuss, was one of the best selling books of WWII with over 1.34 million copies in print by 1945. It is a compilation of four books in the Boners Series: "Boners" (1931), "More Boners" (1931), "Still More Boners" (1931), and "Prize Boners" (1932).
4kO0R TIL that white noise is piped through office buildings as it's supposed to improve productivity.
R7gJQ TIL author Ed Abbey’s last wishes were for friends to transport his body in a pickup truck, foregoing undertakers, embalming or coffin in favor of an old sleeping bag and disregarding all laws concerning burial. He was laid to rest at a secret location in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta desert.
D1YWY TIL taking caffeine with acetaminophen triples the amount of toxins produced in the liver.
grL69 TIL Rosa Parks received social justice training at Highlander Folk School in Tennessee prior to her civil disobedience arrest in Alabama. Dr Martin Luther King Jr also trained there.