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TIL 31 out of the 46 US presidents served in the military

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7rovL TIL Towel Day is a tribute to Douglas Adams during which fans of Adams carry around a towel all day. Towel Day takes place on May 25th
Z8k6p TIL of the Asch conformity experiments, which demonstrated how social pressure can change even our perception of seemingly objective facts.
1anrr TIL: for years Chrysler advertised their luxury cars as containing 'Corinthian leather' with Ricardo Montalbán as the spokesman. On Late Night with David Letterman Montalbán playfully admitted that the term meant nothing. The leather was actually sourced from New Jersey.
KPG4 TIL the record for the fastest manned aircraft was set in 1959, and still hasn’t been broken.
R5e89 TIL The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was an 8-hour alternative history film prophesizing the end of the world and costed approximately an equivalent of $9,418,000 in today's money