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TIL When 5 experts were given fingerprints that, unbeknownst to them, they had deemed a “match” earlier in their career, and told that these were from a suspect of the Madrid train bombings, 4 of the 5 experts now said that they didn't match, suggesting their judgement is affected by the context.

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LkDXr TIL: That none of the three "suicide squad divers" in Chernobyl died from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). As of 2015, it was reported that both Alexei Ananenko and Valeri Bespalov were alive and well. Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack.
D1W5Y TIL: The light atop a Hollywood record company building has been quietly blinking-out messages in Morse code since first being turned-on in 1956 --by Morse's own granddaughter. (The default message is one word, but it once revealed an album release date: “Katy Perry. Prism. October 22, 2013.")
b9PrQ TIL that the ridge going down my scrotum is due to the fact that I used to have a vagina. Apparently men initially develop as girls and once the body decides it's a dude, the labia fuses together into a ball sack and the clitoris becomes the tip of the penis, thus forever changing how I view my junk
awroA TIL - Prior to 1879 solid chocolate was gritty and not popular until Rodolphe Lindt mistakenly left a mixer containing chocolate running overnight.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do