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TIL that writing notes by hand causes you to remember the material better than typing it on a computer. This is because when writing by hand, people tend to process the material in depth, rather than just transcribe it verbatim.

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nW6br TIL: In 1947 a former GI Ernie Kreiling and his wife Jean toured the French WW2 battlefields -a tour of his days of combat.
yVb1w TIL Warhol's 'Shot Marilyns' series got its name from performance artist Dorothy Podber asking him if she could shoot the series she saw were stacked in his studio & thinking she meant photograph them, he agreed. She then took a gun from her purse & shot a hole in 4 of the 5 paintings in the series.
jNO8j TIL that the seemingly altruistic “Keep America Beautiful” anti-littering campaign was actually started so companies like Coca Cola and Dixie could produce MORE waste, to prevent bans on single-use containers, and make Americans feel like trash was the burden of individuals, not corporations.
4WrR TIL that a man mistakenly raised ‘puppies’ for two years - before finding out they’re black bears.
nWjKr TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not "part of the national standard for "numbers and symbols" of the People's Republic of China"