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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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yV5L8 TIL according to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 70% of all incarcerated adults cannot read at a 4th grade level, “meaning they lack the reading skills to navigate many everyday tasks or hold down anything but lower (paying) jobs.”
ZKLR TIL that the schizophrenic artist Mary Barnes discovered her talent while undergoing treatment at Kingsley Hall during which she was encouraged to regress to a childlike state and paint on the walls with her feces. When they needed a solution for the smell, they decided to give her paint.
4ydo TIL:Once George Dantzig was late for the class, professor had written two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. Dantzig assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. A few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems.
dERr TIL Dr. Oz has been the recipient of the “Pigasus Award for Refusal to Face Reality” at least three times, and has also been supportive of faith healing and communication with the dead.
l7JJ1 TIL: Osama bin Laden wrote in a document that he got the inspiration for the 9/11 attacks from the 1999 Egypt Air crash, where a copilot committed murder-suicide by intentionally crashing the plane into the ocean, for unknown reasons.