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Our brains keep us 15 seconds 'in the past' to help us see a stable world

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k70B TIL there is an entire village in India whose main export is muscular men to be bouncers at city nightclubs.
89nV TIL that in 1977 McDonalds had to pay the creators of H.R. Pufnstuf more than $1,000,000 for essentially ripping off the TV show when the restaurant created its McDonaldland characters (Mayor McCheese, Big Mac, Hamburglar etc…)
9nNM TIL of Stephen Wiltshire who draws whole cities from memory. Here he draws a 30 feet panoramic drawing of Rome after visiting it for the first time and memorising within 5 hours.
v1oX8 TIL that in 1845, the founders of a new city in Oregon flipped a coin to decide if they would name it after Boston, Massachusetts or Portland, Maine. Portland won 2 out of 3 tosses and the name stuck
Brydr TIL Ronald Reagan's pet name for his wife Nancy was "Mommie Poo Pants"