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

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KY8rG TIL about the I-400 class aircraft launching super submarines that the Empire of Japan had en route to the US Forward Operating Base Naval Port Ulithi. Their attack on the Pacific Fleet was only derailed by the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6EbMY TIL a person who prioritizes calling "Shotgun" more than a normal person, to the degree that they'll compromise their own ethics to gain the front seat, is known pejoratively as a "Shotgun Gaper."
oBJd8 TIL It took Chinese authorities 7 minutes to locate and apprehend a BBC reporter using a network of CCTV camera and facial recognition technology
VRNm TIL in July 1984 President Ronald Reagan called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food” and established National Ice Cream Month.
jN7nN TIL of Kenny, a mutated gene that is named after Kenny McCormick from South Park, which causes adult flies to die within two days after they are infected with certain bacteria.