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TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless American Quaker who preached in the late 1700s.

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V8Ap TIL Highway hypnosis is a mental state where a person can drive a vehicle great distances responding to external events in the expected safe & correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. Partial or complete amnesia related to the time spent driving can develop for the driver
AdX7 TIL that during the 2015 Paris attacks the German National Soccer Team couldn’t go back to their hotel and as a result had to sleep on mattresses and as a sign of solidarity the French National Team slept with them in the stadium.
v1kJr TIL Belarus has one of the most grandiose defense museums in Eastern Europe, the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex, named after the original Stalin Line, a network of fortifications along the Western border of the former Soviet Union
xeD1 TIL the word “nuclear” was dropped from “nuclear magnetic resonance imaging” out of concern of anti-nuclear sentiments.
m1rgv TIL that in the 2006 World Cup, during the match between Croatia and Australia, a Croatian player received 3 yellow cards before being sent off. Days later, the referee Graham Poll retired from international tournaments, citing the error as the reason