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Why aren’t stop signs yellow, purple or green? Brainstuff explains the origins of the red, octagonal stop sign and some hints about why red might be the best...

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694Mw TIL that the book "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov got its title from an earlier story with the same name, despite Asimov disagreeing with the publisher's naming decision. This earlier story was written ten years before by Otto Binder.
X0aeR TIL: It has been proposed that Eva Perón may have been given a prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of her life "to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness"
gMXkD TIL: James Richardson spent 21 years in jail for murdering his 7 children who died after eating a poisoned lunch. Among the facts concealed by the prosecution; the babysitter had who served the poisoned meal was a convicted murderer on parole for poisoning her husband. He was exonerated in 1989.
XRbX TIL of the theory that in ‘Superman’ (1978), Superman doesn’t actually turn back time by litterally reversing the earth’s rotation. Instead, he himself travels to the past by flying faster than the speed of light, and the reversing earth is simply a visual metaphor for this.
994B TIL of the New York City Police Riot of 1857, a battle between the recently dissolved Municipal Police and the newly formed Metropolitan Police. Municipals fought Metropolitans attempting to arrest the corrupt Mayor Wood. The situation later required the intervention of the New York State Militia.