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TIL that the places where people cast their ballots can affect the choices they make. Even controlling for demographics, people are more likely to vote to raise taxes to fund education, for example, if their polling place is in a school.

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NXybQ TIL about the "Cabbage Patch Kids War" of 1983, a phenomenon where parents across the United States engaged in frenzied shopping battles to secure Cabbage Patch Kids dolls for Christmas. The demand for these dolls far exceeded the supply, leading to store stampedes, fights, and even injuries.
4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
Egbgo TIL Anna Tumarkin (1875–1951) was a Russian-born, naturalized Swiss academic and the first female philosophy professor at the University of Bern. She was also the first woman in Europe to examine PhD candidates and join a University Senate.
Obge TIL that unlike Newton’s formulation that states gravity is instantaneous, it actually travels at the speed of light. If the sun were to instantly disappear, we would continue revolve around it for eight minutes.
Lkm0P TIL that during the filming of 'Where Eagles Dare' actor Richard Burton was drinking up to four bottles of vodka a day, and ending up knocking himself out at one point while drunk. as well as disappearing for several days during one of his drinking binges