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TIL After plagiarizing work for his directorial debut, actor Shia LaBeouf plagiarized a public apology from a Yahoo! answers question about plagiarism.

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XE70P TIL about the Fundamental Attribution Error, a concept that describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us.
5YxyB TIL that Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns in a random stimulus. This often leads to people assigning human characteristics to objects.
nWmEP TIL that the Enigma machine, a German cypher used in WWII was officially invented in 1918 by Arthur Scherbius.
R7wA4 TIL - of Jann Mardenbourough - He had only ever played Sony Gran Turismo online. In a Gran Turismo competition he beat out 90,000 contestants to win and, was so good Nissan gave him a job as a real race car driver
LXrm TIL when Quentin Roosevelt was shot down over France in WW1 the Germans buried him with military honors “because he was a gallant aviator, who died fighting bravely against odds and because he was the son of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt whom they esteemed as one of the greatest Americans”