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TIL a huge, tracked vehicle was used in warfare in the mid 1800’s. It was called “The Megatherium war horse”.

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Z8lnB TIL that Repunzel is the princess of social distancing. She has a whole song about what you can do by yourself stuck in a room. And as an odd coincidence, she happens to be the princess of Corona.
WkXGY TIL that Jake Lloyd, who played young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, retired from acting when he was 12 due to bullying, destroyed all his Star Wars memorabilia, and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after being involved in a high speed chase with police.
kO6NW TIL Humans are psychologically hardwired to blame the victim. The “just-world bias” happens because our brains crave predictability, and as such, we tend to blame victims of unfairness rather than reject the comforting worldview suggesting that good will be rewarded and evil punished.
nWJEr TIL that the term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 thriller play called Gas Light, set in 1880s London, in which a husband tries to convince his wife she’s insane.
4krno TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson filmed a late night informercial with Tom Cruise as Frank T.J Mackey from Magnolia promoting his "Seduce and Destroy System" from Magnolia (1999). Anderson bought time on late night TV to play it on and a lot of late night viewers called convinced it was a real product.