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TIL German chocolate cake was invented in Texas
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TIL In 1981 American Airlines saved roughly $500,000 by removing the olives from salads. Soon afterward, an association of olive growers found out, and threatened to boycott the airline if olives were not restored. AA agreed, and stocked them onboard for passengers who requested them.
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TIL: Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest an REM sleep–like state in jumping spiders | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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TIL the historical inaccuracies in the movie U-571 caused so much controversy it ended up being condemned in British Parliament. Americans did not capture the Enigma machine. The code had been broken years before they entered the war.
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TIL about the Region-Beta Paradox, the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones.
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TIL in 1970, an LSD group called the Brotherhood dropped 25,000 doses of LSD on revelers attending a three day Birthday Party for Jeaus Christ in Laguna Beach