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TIL that mimicking the behavior of others causes you to be perceived as more friendly by interlocutors. This is known as “The Chameleon Effect.”

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KOrG TIL the crowd at the first guillotine execution is reported to have yelled “Bring back our wooden gallows”, because a guillotine was insufficiently entertaining.
kGp7 TIL MLB pitcher Justin Verlander, while in high school, agreed to give his friend .1% of his eventual signing bonus in exchange for $.50 so that he could buy a chocolate milk. His signing bonus ended up being over three million dollars.
j6n0a TIL that brown rats originate from China and only spread to the rest of the old world during the Middle Ages.
b9oma TIL of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. Deputy Marshall west of the Mississippi, who is credited with capturing over 3,000 outlaws, including his own son. He is also rumored to be the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.
jKGa TIL Don King has killed two men. He shot one in the back who had robbed his illegal gambling house and later stomped an employee to death over $600. He was convicted of murder and later pardoned after Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and several others wrote letters to Ohio’s governor.