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TIL “emotional pareidolia” is when have deep meaning onto random pattern like seeing a face in the clouds

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OoNxe TIL that, when Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war ended following intervention from the British military, the grateful public left graffiti in the streets of the capital that said, among other things, "Queen Elizabeth for king!"
oBDjW TIL in order to get the fluid and cartoonish animations that 'Crash Bandicoot' required, programmers found a way to hack into the hardware of the Sony Playstation and exploited built-in code libraries to maximize the available memory for the game
oRVyr TIL the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima was not a planned thing, and was also makeshift. They used a drain pipe that the Japanese used to catch rain water in trenches. This was also the first time an American Flag was raised on Japanese soil in WW2.
x8pw TIL that in 2007 NFL player Braylon Edwards promised 100 Cleveland public high school students that if they kept a 2.5 and performed 15 hours of community service he would pay for their college. They did, and Braylon Edwards kept his word. He spent approximately a million dollars.
OQx7 TIL Oreos are actually a knock-off of a cookie brand called Hydrox that was created 4 years before the Oreo. People soon assumed Hydrox was the knock-off as Oreos became immensely popular.