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TIL, a Canadian sports executive named Jack Hamilton identified 136 different types of wood in a guessing competition?

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XOZE TIL that Houdini hated psychics & before his death he came up with a code word for his wife. In the event of his death she was supposed to go to as many psychics as possible to see if they could guess the word. None were able, thus proving Houdini’s point.
kObdd TiL about the "World Passport" scam which has been running since 1954 and is still running today.
JYxZv TIL Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" was inspired by an older woman Stewart describes as a sexual predator who took his virginity at a jazz festival when he was 16. Though his record company thought Maggie May had no commercial potential, it went on to become #1 in the US and the UK in October, 1971.
Me8pa TIL as a result of it's war with the US government during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology discovered internal documents from the CIA which proposed a mind-control experiment in which hypnotized subjects would have an uncontrollable impulse to ‘commit a nuisance’ on Groundhog Day in 1961.
mxPNy TIL During WW1 the british army created “Pals Battalions” which let men fight alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues. The objective of these battalions were so soldiers would fight harder and keep each others spirits up.