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TIL that Robert Stack (original host of the popular Unsolved Mysteries television show) was extremely skeptical about the segments involving paranormal occurrences. While recording his famous narrations, he would often turn to his producer in between takes and exclaim: “Oh, come on, Raymond!”

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5Yprp TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms.
KO8EE TIL Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States
YNBZ TIL Astronomers have discovered 18 giant blue stars being ejected out of our galaxy and scientists are unsure how the stars are being propelled.
VDlG TIL in 1955 a woman in Morocco went into labor, and needed a c-section. Terrified of the surgery she fled the hospital and never gave birth. 46 years later, stomach pains revealed the now calcified ‘stone’ baby in her womb.
yV5pp TIL that “Goodwill Industries, a tax-exempt non-profit that generates more than $5 billion in annual revenue and pays its executives six-figure and seven-figure salaries, pays some of its workers as little as $0.22 per hour. Why? Because they are disabled.”