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TIL cryptomnesia is an implicit memory phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that a current thought or idea is a product of their own mind when, in truth, they have encountered it previously and then misremembered it. It’s also referred to as inadvertent or unconscious plagiarism
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TIL Union General Philip Kearny devised the first unit insignia patches used in the U.S. Army in 1862, after mistakenly giving orders to soldiers not under his command. Afterward, his men wore a patch of red cloth to identify themselves as members of his unit. Other units quickly adopted the idea.
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TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.
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TIL Samantha Josephson mistakenly entered a wrong vehicle after ordering an Uber and was stabbed over 100 times in the backseat. She couldn’t escape the vehicle because her assailant engaged the child lock mechanism for her doors. This incident sparked new laws and procedures to protect passengers.
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TIL: That the term “Milquetoast”, meaning a timid person, is often mistakenly spelled as “Milk Toast”. But in a weird twist, the timid cartoon character of Caspar Milquetoast for whom the term is coined, was actually named after milk toast because of it’s blandness! So both terms are correct!
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