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TIL that 170 people were able to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar accurate to .1% when their answers were averaged. Out of 4520 beans, the average guess was 4524. The phenomena is known as wisdom of the crowd.

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woo9Y TIL you are allowed to take your own personal parachute on a commercial flight as long as it meets certain requirements
xVRJB TIL that landfills create enough heat that they can be used as a geothermal heat source
EWBP TIL Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ was labelled “immoral” and banned in a Virginia school. She wrote a letter determining school board member illiteracy as the issue causing this decision and donated to a fund hoping “to enroll the (School Board) in any first grade of its choice”.
WXAY TIL that Charles Darwin published his work, “On the Origin of Species” this day, 155 years ago.
X7o8 TIL Bear Grylls rowed naked for 22 miles in a homemade bathtub along the Thames River to raise funds for a friend who lost his legs in a climbing accident.