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TIL the face of Wolverine was inspired by actor Paul D'Amato

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oR5Jr TIL about hindsight bias—the tendency to believe, after an event, that we could have predicted its outcome with certainty. It also leads people to judge historical figures based on prevailing contemporary opinions.
VBKok TIL that daylight savings time has its own timezones and DST observing places must make a conversion for schedules notated in standard time in spring/summer of the same “zone”.
PBjV TIL that a crayon molder named Emerson Moser worked at Crayola for 45 years and on his last day he revealed that he was color blind
x6elw TIL that Bulgarian scientist Victor Ninov fraudulently claimed to have discovered two new chemical elements (116 and 118) while working at Berkley. Later investigations found he had also falsified evidence for elements 110,111, and 112, but escaped consequence as real elements were soon found.
X0GMD TIL Hitler had chronic flatulence. And he took medicine made from faeces of healthy German soldiers