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TIL, Plankton's computer wife Karen was named after Karen Hillenburg. Steven Hillenburg's wife

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XEROj TIL that Inuit in northern Greenland were using iron blades for centuries without knowledge of metallurgy. They made them by breaking pieces off of a huge iron meteorite and shaping them with heavy stones. They built their settlements close to the meteorite and used its iron for generations.
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
XDpr TIL of the “Zeigarnik effect,” a psychological process whereby students who suspend their study, during which they do unrelated activities (such as studying unrelated subjects or playing games), will remember material better than students who complete study sessions without a break
xG17 TIL Main Street USA at Disney World only has one real American Flag, and the rest intentionally have less than 50 stars due to not wanting to take them down in inclement weather or light them up at night.
699EY TIL that in bowling, the reason why three strikes in a row is called a turkey is because in the late 1700s-early 1800s, turkeys would be common prizes given to those who could bowl three strikes in a row during tournaments.