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TIL another term for an intrusive thought is “The Imp of the Perverse”, a metaphor (popularized / coined by Edgar Allan Poe) for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done.

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D1Qap TIL of Alien hand syndrome where one of the hands starts acting seemingly of it's own violation - picking things, throwing or even attempting to strangulate the owner
KYLXJ TIL in 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Delaware and got away with 1000 secret documents. The plan was to do the heist during "the match of the century" between Ali and Frazer, predicting that security would be glued to their tv's for the match, and thus distracted
QmML TIL Funyuns were originally going to be called “OnYums”, but it was discovered that name was already taken.
R5Wl1 TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
kOXK7 TIL Mungo Jerry's In The Summer Time was the first song to feature beatboxing and to make it to number one on the charts.