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TIL Jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman, according to math.

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Z8VZQ TIL that there is actually a term for that creepy feeling when you drive somewhere and have no recollection—it's a form of automaticity called "highway hypnosis" and is a product of the conscious and unconscious minds focusing on different things.
XamP TIL that John D. Rockefeller - the wealthiest man of all time - gave a dime to children wherever he went. When the Great Depression came around, he started giving nickels instead.
kOKy1 TIL the original name for the snowmobile brand Ski-Doo was "Ski-Dog", but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure meant the current name stuck.
7Lyx TIL of Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ who ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his 'hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal
Egxyw TIL about the Saskatoon freezing deaths of Indigenous Canadians