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TIL that the Federal Writer's Project paid out-of-work writers and journalists to produce state guidebooks and collect personal histories for thousands of Americans during the great depression

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Ooo67 TIL months before D-Day British Commandos drove a ship full of explosives on a delayed timer into strategically vital shipyard. Most were captured but 5 walked back to Spain. During interrogation, a German Officer told one of the Commandos the damage would be fixed in weeks, right before detonation.
4516 TIL: There was a “Deaf Zone” created at Grateful Dead concerts where deaf patrons held onto inflated balloons to feel the vibration of the music.
NGWP TIL that what you see can change what you hear (aka McGurk Effect)
x6O55 TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.
VWb8 TIL: Sabrina Erdely (the lady who wrote the Rolling Stone UVA Rape hoax) wrote a story for Rolling Stone in 2011 about a boy who was raped by 2 priests and a school teacher. All 3 were sent to jail. Turns out the story was also false.