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TIL of DARVO, the behavior demonstrated by wrong-doers who are confronted with their acts. Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.

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Jabj TIL the FBI was right to watch Earnest Hemingway. He was a failed KGB spy.
wx76 TIL the “pencil test” was used during Apartheid in South Africa to decide if a child got to grow up white or “coloured” (biracial). If your hair wasn’t curly enough to hold a pencil, you “passed” as white.
KORRJ TIL that astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis married in secret 9 months before their joint flight to the ISS and didn't tell NASA until it was too late to train replacements. They are the only married couple to have ever flown in space together.
Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.
xANg TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks only 18 lines in ‘The Terminator’ and less than 100 words in total.