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TIL Doodling can aid a person’s memory by expending enough energy to keep one from daydreaming. It acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. On average, doodlers can recall 29% more information than non-doodlers.

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kO55E TIL a guy who posted a video of himself viciously abusing a dog got no jail time, was then viciously beat up in a revenge attack by an animal lover, and the animal lover was released after police interrogation.
Kog6 TIL Gene Wilder was insulted by the remake of Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), specifically the influence Johnny Depp and Tim Burton had on the film.
VM6gk TIL, In 1887, a group of men added a name Susanna M Salter to the mayoral ballot of Argonia, Kansas, as a joke intended to humiliate women. Instead, she won over 60% of the votes and became America's first female mayor.
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
P108V TIL of American mercenary William Walker. After failing to conquer parts of Mexico, he overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1856 and ruled as its president for nearly a year, receiving recognition from President Franklin Pierce. He was overthrown, and executed after preparing for another invasion.