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TIL In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.

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vx1L TIL that L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible Navy officer who was fired after the ship he commanded accidentally attacked Mexico. His ship was considered “jinxed” and eventually collided with another ship, burst into flames and sank.
BrZGx TIL That since 1951 in Israel it is required by the law that every new building will have a security room that can withstand blast and shrapnel from conventional weapons, and offer protection against chemical and biological weapons.
o0b7 TIL the man who invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf gun, invested his fortune in R&D and has created ceramic solid state batteries with 3 times the power of the best lithium-ion batteries
kOVNB TIL the medical term STAT is from the Latin word statum, meaning ‘immediately’
VBdNB TIL about Gouverneur Morris. He was a Founding Father who, among many other great achievements, wrote the entire Preamble to the Constitution — including the phrase “We the People of the United States” — and drafted the final version of the Constitution.