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TIL Manute Bol may have invented the phrase "My Bad"

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R7NL1 TIL that Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was a paranoid schizophrenic. His wife had him committed to a psychiatric hospital and it was after this time that he wrote out against all psychology and psychiatric practices. This is why the Church of Scientology is adamantly against them
QJvb6 TIL before the 1400s, people in Korea primarily wrote using Classical Chinese alongside phonetic writing systems based on Chinese script. Due to the difficulty in learning Chinese characters, King Sejong created the Korean alphabet, Hangul to promote literacy among the common people.
kOx4e TIL Hypnic jerks (that jolt you get that wakes you up just before you fall asleep) may well be left over from when we were tree-dwelling monkeys: the jerk reflex prevented us from falling asleep on an unsafe branch.
b6DM4 TIL what happens when a queen bee dies
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.