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TIL of the Bystander Effect - a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help

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69YJJ TIL about the "Dilberito," a vegetarian wrap concocted by Dilbert creator Scott Adams to tie into his comic strip. The product was a colossal failure, with Adams, himself, saying, "one bite made you fart so hard, your intestines formed a tail."
xVXNw TIL American politician and former vice president Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) argued against the idea of a standing army, comparing it to a standing penis: "An excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure."
5VOpB TIL that there is a brand of potato chips developed for prison commissaries that was so popular on the inside that it became available to the mass market.
ZplJQ TIL a British communist in New Zealand released 15,000+ invasive fish using his Ford Zephyr he’d converted with fish tanks. He permanently damaged waterways and ecosystems
loWoA TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.