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TIL when you mouse over “I’m feeling lucky” it now changes and brings up other “I’m feeling…”

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KAgJ TIL during the prohibition era, the US government added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.
M7EKK TIL: Only 25% of American combat soldiers in Europe fired their weapons at the enemy during World War 2.
DQgoV TIL the 1978 Saturday Night Live song "King Tut" with Steve Martin was one of the most expensive sketches the show had attempted at the time. Producer Lorne Michaels put everything behind the production.
yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.
N7gaJ TIL that Winston Churchill served as MP for 64 years. He served under both Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth.