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7ryeP TIL that the experience of pain can be reduced by visual shrinking or increased by visual magnifying. When presented with a shrinking view of their arm, participants with chronic-limb pain reported less pain, or increased pain in the magnified condition.
kba5 TIL there was a 1940’s U.S. plane which had 10 engines, 336 spark plugs, carried a camera that could spot a golf ball at 12 miles, and could stay in the air for 50 hours.
kJJLE TIL that ant colonies are almost entirely female. Queen, soldiers, workers…all female. Males have ONE job. They do it and die…life span about 1 week
4jbb Til there was a man who built a 40-Foot “Spite Fence” around his neighbor’s house.
7rvZ TIL one of the most dangerous books ever made, “Shadows From the Walls of Death,” simply contains samples of arsenic-infused wallpapers.