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TIL The longest English word takes three and a half hours to pronounce

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j6BoQ TIL: The creators of the Myers-Briggs test had no formal education in psychology, were self-taught in psychometric testing and only received rudimentary education in test construction, scoring, validation, and statistical methods.
8a444 TIL Chickens will sometimes eat their eggs and develop a taste for them. Sometimes, this can be caused by a calcium deficiency in their diet but other times, they just develop a taste for the rich food source and have to be culled or they can teach this to the other hens.
RNWj TIL after the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883, the atmospheric debris resulted in blood red sunsets all over the world for months. The painting “The Scream” depicts a Krakatoa sunset over Oslo, Norway
5VBLr TIL that Uranium is the heaviest element in nature.
RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.