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TIL In a motor accident, where a speeding car hits a slower moving vehicle coming from the side, the speeding car drivers often swear that they just didn’t see the vehicle coming from the left or right. Well, they aren’t lying.This phenomenon is known as “Motion Induced Blindness”.

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J18Bk TIL the opening crawl (words in space) from the original Star Wars trilogy was achieved by placing physical models of the sentences on a black canvas and slowly panning a camera over them.
VMjv4 TIL the song "Blackbird" was inspired by the racial tensions in the US in 1968 as a symbolic way to support the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. McCartney underlined also that “bird” is a British slang often used for “girl”, which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.......Also, Bach....
0VEL TIL that in music, an 8th note is called a ‘Quaver’, a 16th note is called a 'Semiquaver’, a 32nd note is called a 'Demisemiquaver’, a 64th note is called a 'Hemidemisemiquaver’, a 128th note is called a 'Semihemidemisemiquaver’ and a 256th note is called a 'Demisemihemidemisemiquaver’.
Br5Ye TIL that dogs can talk, or at least, they can learn to communicate with humans by pressing buttons that produce sounds for different words, and they can have actual conversations with us
1aVa7 TIL slang term "going to the crapper" is attributed to Thomas Crapper, a British plumber which his company sold toilet bowls with his name stamped on them. many believe that he was the inventor of the flushing toilet. the real inventor is John Harrington, therefore the phrase "going to the John".