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TIL: As we age, we perceive time faster because “adulthood is accompanied by fewer and fewer memorable events” (firsts), our biological clocks slows down along with a few other affecting factors

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neaLB TIL that the $100 bill comprises 77% of all US currency in circulation. According to former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, more than two-thirds of all $100 notes are held outside the United States.
b9ew4 TIL It was comic strip character Dick Tracy's wrist radio that inspired Martin Cooper of Motorola to conceive of the first portable cellular phone in 1973. This led to the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
KLg4 TIL In 1970, America’s semiconductor industry ground to a halt because manufacturers couldn’t buy blades for cutting the wafers apart. All the big companies bought their blades from a guy working out of his garage who suddenly got sick.
L0mQ TIL That O.J. Simpson was going to be the Terminator, but was cut because the director couldn’t imagine him as a ruthless killer.
d848 TIL cats may have been domesticated 12,000 years because in the shift from hunter/gatherers to agricultural civ, the influx of mice led to wild cats coming to live near their prey.