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TIL that every year, Western Europeans alone collectively lose about 1.6 million years of healthy life because of traffic noise.

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6WRZ TIL advertisements used to be played after the movie - hence the name “trailer”
6EVyX TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a male gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boy's back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.
4db TIL there is an island in the English channel where cars are banned. People get around on bicycle, horses or tractors.
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
pY5XG TIL of the Wildrake diving bell accident where two saturation divers became trapped in the bell at 522ft (159m) when both the lift & umbilical, carry power & hot water, became detached. Before rescue could get to them, they died of hypothermia.