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TIL that the root of the word hysteria is the Greek hystera, meaning uterus, since it was believed that madness and ungovernable emotions were caused by either the wandering or the suffocation of the uterus in the body of a woman

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V6bp TIL during WWII the Federal Reserve printed special money for Hawaii to make it easy to render the bills useless if the Japanese overtook Hawaii.
VX4G TIL that a real man named Walter White was arrested for trafficking and manufacturing of methamphetamine.
Z8EKR TIL Pardoned convict Thomas Pamphlett was shipwrecked and castaway in the Moreton Bay area, Australia, 1823, & was rescued after several months. But he committed another crime, & was sentenced to 7 years’ transportation to the new penal colony... in Moreton Bay.
k9lB TIL the phrase “Don’t mess with Texas” has nothing to do with Texan toughness, but was invented by the Texas Department of Transportation to fight littering
Z8gMB TIL that the FBI's $1B facial recognition system couldn't match photos of the Boston marathon bombers to their drivers licenses. The system was only good for matching drivers license and passport photos to other drivers license and passport photos