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TIL In 1922 organized groups of people in New York were beating up pedestrians who forgot to switch hats after the end of the summer as fashion rules demanded

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KlL6 TIL the man who invented Life Savers (candy) had a son who committed suicide by jumping off a ship.
NDbE TIL that hitting a punching bag does not produce a cathartic effect: It increases rather than decreases subsequent aggression.
J1PPv TIL the screech we all associate with bald eagles is dubbed from another bird. This is because the noises a bald eagle makes is pretty lame in comparison.
QYd9 TIL Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, was given her name for two reasons. The hard consonant “X” allows her to recognize her name easier, and the name “Alexa” is also reminiscent of the Library of Alexandria; as the library was the “keeper of all knowledge”
j6PrE TIL under rare circumstances, it is possible for human sperm to travel up the fallopian tube, through the ovarian tissue, and penetrate the wall of an intact ovarian follicle to reach the ovum and fertilize the egg before ovulation occurs