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TIL That perceiving time faster or slower than what it is is known as the Kappa Effect.

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6E588 TIL suicides news can affect people with depression, specially if the suicidal was a relative or someone famous. The suicide rate has increased by 10% after the death of Robin Williams.
dwLd TIL that thanks to Tsunami, existence of 6 temples dated 7th century AD in Mahabalipuram, India was discovered in 2005
m1YXp TIL that a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's government attempted to order an arrest of about 86,000 people
W7y48 TIL that blackcurrants were once grown in the U.S. until their growth was restricted in 1911. The restriction was to protect pine trees from blister rust fungus, which use the plant as a host.
1a0wW TIL Sigmund Freud was nominated 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize between 1915 and 1938, one year before his death in London. Romain Rolland, the French Nobel novelist, backed Freud's "new analysis of emotional and intellectual life" for a Nobel in literature