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TIL that one of the main hypothesis explaining the massive dislike of clowns is the “uncanny valley effect”. The term depicts a valley of negative emotional response caused by things that look human but “aren’t quite there”

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QNnyp TIL that clocks in the first railway stations had 3 hands, showing London time and 'local' time.
9YN8B TIL Stan Lee’s job classification in the American military during WWII was ‘playwright’. He didn’t find this out until he was discharged.
5VBj8 TIL Ronald Reagan's post presidency office was in Fox Plaza, where Die Hard was filmed.
DVDp TIL: Victoria’s Secret was founded by a guy in the 1970’s who had a very unpleasant experience while trying to buy his wife some underwear. The employees treated him as a pervert. VS almost failed since it catered mostly to men in the beginning.
OdlR TIL that the words for each parent “mama” and “papa” are very similar in languages all around the world and developed independently. All human babies “baby talk”, and these first sounds are mistaken as real “first” words by adults. Ex: Mandarin Chinese dad=baba, mom=mama.