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TIL heavy multitaskers have a reduced memory according to a Stanford psychologist

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BgGNx TIL a 2003 study that measured over 1,000 pairs of women's pants found that pants from more expensive brands tended to be smaller than those from cheaper brands with the same nominal size.
xVlOD TIL that McDonalds once aired a commercial in the U.K. where a boy grieving his dead father feels better after eating a filet o' fish sandwich.
kjjm TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.
o9OE TIL a man was only sentenced to five years probation for killing the man who kidnapped and molested his 11-year old son.
XEM8P TIL of Adolf Topperwein, an exhibition shooter who in a 10 day period in 1907, shot 72,500 flying wooden blocks, missing only 9. His longest run without a miss: 14,500.