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TIL that a fake city of 30,000 was built in Tennessee during World War II as a front for a nuclear research facility

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WQnL TIL to treat bladder cancer, doctors inject cow tuberculosis bacteria up your urethra. The subsequent immune reaction destroys cancer cells, and the treatment has been shown to be more effective than chemotherapy.
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8eG7X TIL that there is a town under water in the state of Maine because a greedy power company flooded it for their own use and when not all homeowners agreed to sell, they flooded it anyway.
JYobj TIL in 2016, a flight was delayed because a passenger grew concerned and alerted the authorities about the suspicious scribbles of her curly, dark-haired seatmate. Upon inspection, it turned out that the seatmate was an Italian, who was a UPenn economics professor solving differential equations.
LQeaV TIL about the fundamental attribution error. A theory in social psychology which posits that people tend to overattribute the behaviour of others to their personality and underattribute them to situation or context