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TIL the famous “We can do it!” WWII propaganda poster only achieved popularity during the 1980’s. During the war, it was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder.

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LQLJ9 TIL that Samuel "Sam" Houston, the 1st and 3rd President of the Republic of Texas who served as Governor of both Tennessee and Texas, and for whom the city of Houston in Texas is named, was descended from the Houston baronets and Clan Houston in Scotland. He was also a member of the Cherokee Tribe.
OoEd6 TIL that the opposite of the placebo effect is the ‘Nocebo effect’, where negative expectations reduce effects of treatment on the patient. An example is that warning patients about the side effects of drugs makes it more likely that those side effects will occur!
YvdW TIL Gary Condit was not only cleared of having any involvement in the murder of Chandra Levy, but the real murderer has been caught and was found guilty back in 2010.
ODZ4 TIL Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza.
wEwo TIL the NYPD once strip-searched a black man, cuffed him with his hands behind his back, sodomized him with a plunger, then jammed the plunger handle into his mouth. His colon and bladder were severly damaged. The NYPD claimed his injuries were the result of “abnormal homosexual activities”.