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TIL each time you recall a memory, it becomes distorted and less accurate.

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xo9k TIL that in 1916 a Salt Lake City company figured out the cheapest way to send 40 tons of bricks to Vernal Utah was to wrap each individually and send parcel post. Regulations were quickly changed to address this issue
J1Qbk TIL about the Italian Futurist Cooking movement, which rejected pasta and had diners sit inside a mock airplane with vibrating engines to stimulate their appetites
R7yZ4 TIL Irish Police wrote over 50 tickets to "Prawo Jazdy". He became notorious for various motoring offences before it was realised that "Prawo Jazdy" means "Driving Licence" in Polish.
xQPb TIL in 2015, Google dropped their old motto “Don’t Be Evil”
4gXJ TIL On several occasions, Harrison Ford has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the behest of local authorities, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration in Jackson, Wyoming