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TIL about William Marston, a psychologist who created both Wonder Woman and the polygraph

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1ajQ8 TIL in many asian languages, the word for "4" is extremely similar to their word for "death" causing Tetraphobia - the fear and practice of avoiding the number 4
pYm8e TIL that a misreading of Persian-derived babr (tiger) as misspelled Russian bobr (beaver) led to a flag having a tiger-beaver hybrid
1aVgD TIL in 2009 a man won a $10,000 settlement after getting kicked out of Yankee Stadium by off-duty police officers for trying to use the bathroom while "God Bless America" was playing.
eQNb TIL that in 1995 JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected by 12 publishing companies. And now she is the only billionaire author in the world.
E1nB0 TIL During the final hours of the music festival "Woodstock 99" a peace promotion organization handed out candles to the audience to create a candlelight vigil for the final hours of the festival. The audience used the candles to set fire to an audio tower and start bonfires.