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TIL the term "gaslighting" comes from a 1938 play where a man dims the gas lights in his home and convinces his wife she's imagining it, to make her think she's going insane.

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5YrBQ TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.
W7NYL TIL the Korean War had a higher rate of civilian casualties than the Vietnam War
NXA7N TIL that when "The Pirate Queen" Grace O'Malley's sons were taken captive by the English, she convinced Queen Elizabeth to free them AND let O'Malley continue her piratical activities as long as she also defended the Crown
9wVWB TIL the world record for most parachute jumps in a 24-hour period is 640 set by Jay Stokes in 2006.
jNbej Today I learned an Adze is a sideways Axe