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TIL 85% of social media videos are watched on mute, making captions essential for engagement.

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ewAL TIL In Movies Good Guys usually move Left to Right while Bad Guys usually move Right to Left
Wkrj4 TIL that Hawaii is bigger than seven other states in the US (including Massachusetts), is comparable in size to Maryland, and is roughly 1/3rd the size of South Carolina.
EgMdd TIL The shipwreck of M/S Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea on September 28, 1994 and caused 852 deaths, is only about 80 meters below sea level. If you were to put the ship on her transom with the bow pointing to the sky, about half of the ship would be above the surface of the water.
vPMmB TIL that Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. An Olympic gold medalist; his personal best of 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) makes him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet (2.4 m).
AbJB TIL in 2007, Siberia experienced orange snow. This orange snow was ruled to most likely caused by a heavy sandstorm in neighboring Kazakhstan. Tests on the snow revealed numerous sand and clay dust particles and a high iron-content, which were blown into Russia in the upper stratosphere.