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TIL the term “jaywalking” was coined by the auto industry in the 1920s in an effort to “redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong”

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9YQp TIL that cluster headaches are called “suicide headaches,” because as one of the most painful conditions known to medical science, sufferers want to kill themselves during attacks.
M9vK TIL that the movie, U-571, states that Americans were responsible for capturing the first enigma machine. The truth is that the first enigma machine was captured by the British, 7 months before the Americans entered the war.
8apGG TIL A set of foot prints of a young child and a wolf or dog walking side by side was found in the Chauvet Cave in France. This information suggests the origin of the human-dog companionship could date to before the last Ice Age.
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Me4EA TIL In 1967, US president Lyndon Johnson secretly ordered a study that concluded he would die at age 64. He died of a heart attack in 1973 at age 64.