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TIL trolley refers to trams and not just shopping carts. I had believed for the longest time that the trolley problem referred to shopping carts running over people...

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b9lX7 TIL The first black governor of a U.S. state was in 1872. The second was in 1990.
O5m4 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.
bRe7 TIL Although allied with Japan, Hitler had planned to go in war against the “Yellow People” of Asia in an ultimate showdown (WWIII?) between Nazis and the Japanese Empire to see who would truly dominate the world after an Axis Victory.
rR1Gd TIL A study found that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit in the silence of their thoughts
VMMBB TIL of the Peter Principle: Employees are promoted based on performance in their current role, not their ability to perform a new role. People rise to their level of incompetence.