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TIL "Lost in the Mall" is a memory implantation technique used to create memories of events that never took place

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1P04 TIL of Watermelon mosaic virus, a virus that “draws” circles on watermelons.
dkMQ TIL the Indonesian Communist Party was once the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world, and was effectively dissolved through a US-supported mass killing of 500,000 of its members.
7p4Z TIL a band bought $20k worth of their own tickets from ticketmaster and sold them back to fans at face value eating all the ticketmaster extortion fees.
9y1G TIL that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve, the full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
XEKrj TIL ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone with the Wind'' were directed by the same person in the same year