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TIL For as much as popular words and phrases go in and out of style, swear words have remained mostly unchanged for hundreds of years.

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b6Dr4 TIL Batman’s fascination for and attraction to bats is due to a unique psychological response to fear and anxiety called a“counterphobic attitude” which involves a person actively seeking out the sources of the things that frighten them in the hope of overcoming their fears and becoming stronger.
YpM0P TIL the boycott was named after Charles Boycott, a man so hated that people wanted nothing to do with him
OGYMX TIL about MiniScribe, a hard drive manufacturing company from the '80s who tried to cover up an inventory shortage by packing 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipping them to their distributor.
PYX8O TIL Super-Bowl winning coach Hank Stram offered NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain a contract to play for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s.
dZ58 TIL the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil and makes it very easy for the government to suspend Habeas Corpus - AKA declare martial law.