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TIL that a study performed by the University of Texas has concluded that when surgeons listen to their preferred music, their stitches are better and faster

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XEaw8 TIL Over 40 Sri Lankan students at University of Kang Ning were tricked into working in Taiwan underground factories and slaughterhouses
WkO9 TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted and lynched for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1940s
0ww4v TIL a tribe in Australia who speaks the Kuuk Thaayorre language, perceives time as passing east to west (following the sun's path) as opposed to left to right (following the way we read). They also speak of direction in cardinal terms (NESW) instead of ego-centric terms (left, right, front, back).
4XK9J TIL in 2008 the council of the British city of Birmingham printed 360,000 leaflets that featured an image of the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. The council then said that it was meant to be a "generic skyline picture".
YGMP TIL that Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx wrote an economics paper on the need for reliable overnight delivery in the information age, which the professor gave a ‘C’, that paper now sits on display at the FedEx world headquarters.