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TIL About banner blindness, a phenomen where web users subconciously ignore information on webpages from ad-like banners.

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WkRB4 TIL the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (dit-dit-dit-dah) is morse code for the letter V. Representing victory, this was an acknowledged symbol of the war effort, made by Winston Churchill forming a 'V' with the first and second fingers of his raised right hand.
Lkp79 TIL in 1909, the United States Government confiscated Coca-Cola products because the high caffeine content breached a food safety law. This case went all to the way to the Supreme Court, and the government won, forcing Coca-Cola to pay all court costs and reduce their product's caffeine content.
vPmKK TIL that unlike motherhood, fatherhood is not mentioned in Universal Declaration of Human rights.
DLXv TIL in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.
rNN9e TIL in 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 38 mph (61 kmph), and was later able to stop it completely, manipulate it, even move it to a different location.