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TIL that the web page for “web page” in Wikipedia contains a screenshot of itself as an image, resulting in an infinitely recursive image.

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Brpke TIL in the 1960s and 70s, professionally trained psychologists overtly focused on combating unionization, introduced sophisticated behavioural and social science techniques to allow employers to screen out potential union supporters and to facilitate the maintenance of a non-union environment
R7xZQ TIL that behind the feeling of "anger" is always any sort of pain
4b1w TIL that in 2014, a missing woman was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
W7L8X TIL "The Late Late Toy Show", an annual special on Irish TV channel RTÉ, is so popular that 30 seconds of commercial time costs €17,000. In comparison, the UEFA Championship Final had commercial time costing €9,750.
M7Xj8 TIL that, in June 1947, Kenneth Arnold became the first person to describe seeing a “Flying Saucer”, popularizing the common image of alien spaceships