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TIL Germans sunk an oil tanker at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1942 during WWII

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JYOxB TIL: "Semantic satiation" is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds
196W TIL the most common reason Japanese people wear face masks is to protect us from THEIR germs. Not from other people’s.
LJap TIL that white-tailed eagles often reuse their nests instead of recreating them year after year. One family of white-tailed eagles in Iceland have taken this to the extreme by reusing the same nest for 150 years.
r5w0 TIL forging a signature is legal if the persons signature you are forging gives permission.
jN9aj TIL that in 2008 a fire at Universal Studios destroyed up to 500,000 original masters most of which weren't backed up and is the biggest disaster in music history