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TIL 1996 was the first year over half of Americans approved of interracial marriage

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mx0EY TIL when the Hoover Dam was being drafted, the engineers calculated that it would take 125 years for the concrete to cool if done in a single pour. Instead they poured it in sectioned blocks, some as big as 50 square feet and 5 feet high.
lE1B TIL that Steve Jobs had a relatively treatable type of cancer, however, he pursued pseudo-medicine for 9 months, leading to his death
rRGd1 TIL that All human are susceptible to the “illusion of truth effect”. Meaning the more we hear something, the more likely we are to believe it is true.
Z8DaY TIL that Aki Ross, the computer-generated protagonist of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, was intended to serve as the world's first CGI actress, using the same model and voice actress for different movies and characters. The movie lost $52 million, ending this plan.
69GQ8 TIL that during the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1931 it was the very first time employers required workers to wear hard hats