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TIL That so few People Attended Lee Harvey Oswald's Funeral, Reporters had to Act as Pallbearers.

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JYpQV TIL after the Vietnam war, Vietnamese farmers reused external fuel tanks dropped from US aircraft to create makeshift canoes and riverboats.
8an6V TIL the concept for having a “credit score” to judge if you could receive a loan didn’t exist until 1989
vPvn8 TIL Playboy's founder Hugh Hefner is buried in the crypt right next to Playboy's first centerfold, Marilyn Monroe.
Oopy7 TIL in 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled "A a a a a Very Good Song" became one of the top selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song.
aw1aL TIL in psychology "cognitive dissonance" requires distress from the incompatible ideas. The distress, if it results from incompatible ideas, is what's theorized to cause one to resolve the contradiction, if one is not distressed they are unlikely to be motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance