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TIL mayday as a distress call is French M'aider.
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TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying pan, was burned in a gunpowder blast, and fell into a river. He grew up to invent the saxophone.
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TIL an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed to change the country’s name to “the United States of Earth.” It did not pass.
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TIL a man mailed 100 companies asking for free stuff, dubbing it “The $39 Experiment.”
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TIL people can genuinely lie without knowing it due to ‘Confabulation’: the production or creation of false memories without the intent to deceive, sometimes called "honest lying."
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TIL that Dr. Bronner, of the "all-one" Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, fled to the United States in 1929 and urged his parents to come with him. The last he heard from them was "You were right," before they were killed in the Holocaust.