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TIL Carousels were first invented for training knights in jousting with wooden horses and try to hit targets as they spin

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69g9Q TIL that the CIA used psychological warfare against Philippine resistance forces in the 1950s by taking advantage of mythical 'Aswang' (vampire-like in Filipino folklore) against the people by puncturing holes on the necks of dead bodies resembling aswang bites & piling them on the sides of roads.
R5BXa TIL 17% of people pee in the bath tub while taking a bath
epOW4 TIL Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants
vPjBK TIL about Bill Benter, a gambler who wrote an algorithm that helped him win nearly $1 billion on horse races.
eLMD TIL Syd Barrett, original member of Pink Floyd, experienced extreme synesthesia and would give his band musical directions such as, “Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle afternoonish. At the moment it’s too windy and icy.”