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TIL that tracking habits daily can significantly improve goal achievement by reinforcing positive behaviors and increasing self-awareness.

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Nk9e TIL in 1998 a British man faked his own death to make his wife realise how much she missed him. He left his clothes on the beach and hid. It backfired as his wife divorced him after learning about it
nGb7 TIL That Hungarian psychologist László Polgár wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He showed his ideas to his teacher, they got married and raised their three children to be chess grandmasters, two of them are record breakers and one became the first female to beat the top-ranked male.
Wao4 TIL Lenny “Luca Brasi” Montana of The Godfather used to be an arsonist for the mob. He’d tie a kerosene-soaked tampon to a mouse’s tail, light it, and set it loose in a building.
4gb TIL Ernest Hemingway used a machine gun when fishing, to shoot sharks, and was the first person to ever boat a giant tuna in an undamaged state.
0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.