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TIL Humans are psychologically hardwired to blame the victim. The “just-world bias” happens because our brains crave predictability, and as such, we tend to blame victims of unfairness rather than reject the comforting worldview suggesting that good will be rewarded and evil punished.

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pBNb TIL That after the genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines, there are many recorded cases of bodies being claimed for scientific study and museum displays, and one case of a body being exhumed so the scrotum could be used for a tobacco pouch.
kOlZW TIL about the carnivorous spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today.
gr7A8 TIL Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
dDyEQ TIL that the United States 50 State Quarter program was inspired by Canada making quarters for each province and territory in 1992 for the 125th anniversary of Confederation
NY4e TIL: In 1927, Perkins developed a method of removing the liquid from Fruit Smack so the remaining powder could be re-packaged in envelopes under a new name to be called Kool-Ade.