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TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect: asking someone who dislikes you for a favor can make them like you

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6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.
E1mWd TIL the line "They call me Mr. Pig" in the Lion King is a reference to the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night
LpDd TIL that in 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
mxJjv TIL that Disneyland edited out every cigarette they could find in Walt Disney’s photographs, causing his unusually iconic two finger pointing gesture. Tom Hanks even used it in Saving Mr. Banks as do Disney employees now.
x6695 TIL - Spike Milligan's tombstone includes the phrase "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite" - Irish for "I told you I was ill".