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TIL that, by law, the Metric System is the preferred measurement system in the United States.

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kOyj4 TIL of the Truth about Hansel and Gretel - a book that purportedly uncovered the origins of the myth: a baker named Hans Metzler and his sister Gretel killed an old woman for her recipe for gingerbread. Wildly popular, the book was soon discovered to be a hoax
mxv4y TIL that the recorded cases of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) have these things in common: 1) the victims are chronic alcoholics; 2) they are usually elderly females 3) the body has not burned spontaneously, but some lighted substance has come into contact with it.
Xr4P TIL that in 1984 the lead singer of Motley Crue got drunk, killed a man, admitted to it, and got 30 days in jail.
R5Km8 TIL That the precursor to the CIA published a field manual for regular people in Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis at their regular jobs
yVXVw TIL NoFap was created by a known Pseudoscience peddler.