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TIL that James Madison was only 5’4” and about 100 pounds

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lxRG TIL in 1350 when bubonic plague struck England, the Scots took the opportunity to invade the country. But instead, the Scottish army caught the disease, was routed by the English and the fleeing army inadvertently spread the plague across Scotland
wLGJM TIL that so many employees play online games during work hours, that Kongregate notices a significant drop-off in traffic around the time people start heading home. Another survey by PopCap Games, the company behind Bejeweled, indicated that 24 percent of respondents play games at work.
rR7b4 TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk
lomQ7 TIL that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias, which means that the negative experiences they have had impact them more strongly than positive experiences on psychological states and processes.
DMnr TIL that the British made their final payment to the USA for war materials and food supplies during WWII in 2006.