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TIL there is a search engine that plants a tree everytime you use it.

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9YVNQ TIL of the 'Illusory truth effect', the tendency to believe information to be correct after repeated exposure. The illusory truth effect has played a significant role in such fields as election campaigns, advertising, news media, and political propaganda throughout world history.
XZjj TIL Harrison Ford declined the lead role of Benjamin Martin in The Patriot, feeling the script had boiled the Revolutionary War down to a “one-man’s-revenge” melodrama.
XB5k TIL that the concept/ticketing of jaywalking in the U.S. was started by a propaganda campaign by the automotive industry in the 1920s.
4XgEb TIL that a wedding ring that was lost for 45 years was found in a car engine a man bought for parts. Will Frye came across the ring when he was taking apart the V8 he’d pulled from a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 junker. He called the former owner and the 93 year old remembered losing it around 1973.
QNdWa TIL Italy was never a province of the Roman Empire, it instead had the special administrative status of "Domina provinciarum" meaning "ruler of the provinces"