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TIL Henry Ford, a frequent insomniac, had “I’ll sleep well tonight” as his final words

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5RQP TIL of Dewey Bozella, a Boston native who was imprisoned for 26 years for a murder he did not commit. In those 26 years, 2 felons put the murder on him, was denied parole several times, the evidence against him was destroyed by police, and evidence proving his innocence was never brought to trial.
xVlg0 TIL that the instant noodle was invented during a period of food shortages in Japan following WWII. After the Japanese health ministry supplied the population with wheat flour and asked them to make bread, Momofuku Ando instead decided on making noodles (which were more familiar) that would last.
v1gNr TIL that Split-brain syndrome is a disconnection of the left and right brain hemispheres produced by Corpus callosotomy(a surgical epilepsy treatment). This results in both brain hemispheres acting and perceiving things differently.
M8Xm TIL there are at least 7 people alive today who could claim the title of King of Jerusalem.
9Y0j7 TIL the reason a software wizard is called wizard, is because there used to be software experts nicknamed wizards that helped users to go trough tasks, and the name stuck when the wizards became part of the softwares themselves