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TIL that Snopes, wanting to stress that people shouldn’t believe everything they read, created a few entries with myths they made up and marked them “true”. Tv channel TLC ran an urban legends show that on one episode said something to be true. That something was one of the myths created by Snopes.

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mxrnv TIL that in Washington state you can challenge someone to mutual combat and fight in the street. Both parties have a free pass to engage in violence with their bare fists with no weapons. As long as both parties consent to the fight, the police will allow it to occur.
Ol64 TIL of Amelia Dyer who is one of the most prolific serial killers in history and is estimated to have killed 200-400 children
PYPQw TIL "The Beatles" would never have been seen on American TV but for the JFK assassination. CBS executives decided that America needed something light-hearted on the news to take the nation’s mind off the painful assassination and showed a brief clip. Ed Sullivan was unexpectedly watching.
j6AnN TIL Walking through a doorway can cause a person to forget their original task or thought, known as the "doorway effect."
mxpLY TIL in 2005 a woman walked alone across the Sahara desert