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TIL about Potoooooooo, a racehorse who had over 25 wins and was named due to mishearing potato as pot-eight-os

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nWrkG TIL Seven Months Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a Former Army General
84pX TIL that people on the south Pacific Pitcairn Islands, descended from British mutineers and accompanying Tahitians, speak an English creole that is heavily influenced by naval lingo. “To fall over” is “to capsize” while for “everyone” they say “all hands” (from “all hands on deck”).
xlM1 TIL that since 1989 the federal government has paid $2.4 billion in awards for 3100+ injuries/deaths proven to have been caused by adverse reactions to vaccinations. Not a single one of the 4,564 claims of vaccine-caused autism was found to have merit.
6QBm TIL Major League Baseball umpires are required by rule to wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.
E1Bno TIL about the Peak-End Rule – a cognitive bias whereby we tend to judge and remember an experience/event on the basis of how we felt at its 'peaks' (intense positive or negative moments) and at its 'end' (the final moments) rather than the sum total of all the moments of the experience/event.