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TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.

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J1vWB TIL: In 1952 British politician Christopher Mayhew, in a rare and 'unbroadcast' BBC Panorama special, once demonstrated the effects of mescaline hydrochloride, leading to a series of predictably comical incongruities.
OdL7 TIL In 2007 six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H bomber and flown from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale, Louisiana. For a whole 36 hours they went unaccounted for.
jewE TIL in a study that examined the difference in brain activity of women during real and faked orgasms, researchers inadvertantly discovered that test subjects reached orgasm 80% of the time while wearing socks versus 50% without.
gMG5y TIL a study in 2014 found dog lovers are more energetic and outgoing and also tend to follow rules closely. Cat lovers, on the other hand, are more introverted, more open-minded, more sensitive, and non-confomist.
epmk5 TIL about Amboy, a community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernadino County. The town's business district contains a post office, a historic restaurant-motel, and a Route 66 gift shop, all operated by the town's population of four people.