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til, largely because the tech industry has so wholeheartedly embraced work-from-home, activity in San Francisco’s downtown remains at roughly a third of prepandemic levels — lower than in about 50 other major cities

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jVGj TIL all of Mr. Rogers sweaters were hand-knit by his mom.
6mwJ TIL a researcher in the 1970s blindfolded participants and told them they were going to play tug-of-war against another team. When they were told they had 3 others pulling with them, they pulled 18% less strenuously than when they were told they were alone. The effect is now known as social loafing.
Egk10 TIL the small white flowers along roadsides in the UK is called Danish Scurvy Grass, a coastal plant that thrives in the central reservation due to winter road salt accumulation.
jYRE TIL Schoolhouse Rock! was created by an ad agency exec who noticed that his son had learned every Beatles lyric but could not remember multiplication tables.
Y7JXv TIL in 1857-58 the US tested camels for military use. While crossing the Mojave desert Native Americans attacked. The camel driver pulled his Scimitar and charged yelling "Bismiallah." Never having seen a camel before the Indians fled in terror thinking it was a desert demon.