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TIL Drunk Americans spend $30.4 billion on spontaneous online purchases.

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d84ZB TIL Simon. Simon was the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.
KvRJ TIL that Sigmund Freud’s nephew believed the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in society. His subsequent work did much to create the consumerist culture we live in today.
mxBwp TIL: The average U.S.A citizen is not getting enough nutrients because of poor diet.
NXwlQ TIL about the "invisible wall," an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through.
Bgmjx TIL that there is a Canadian Tory politician named John Tory