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TIL phantom phone vibrations are real, and are better characterized as a tactile hallucination.

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P1e4E Today I learned the power symbol we see on computers (a circle with a line on the top) is a combination of the number zero and one, replicating the binary state a computer can be in: on or off.
5YXB8 TIL that the most common street name in the US is "Second". "First" is the second-most common
awRrN TIL Almost 500 years ago, an African man Yasuke arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior and the only black person to achieve this status.
oml7 TIL France was not the first to recognize the US as a legitimate nation. Morocco was the first. Even today, Morocco and the US share the US’ longest unbroken treaty.
ADVgd TIL In Japan there is a fire alarm that can wake deaf people by spraying wasabi in the air