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TIL Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world.

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NRK6 TIL Nintendo’s stock skyrocketed when Pokémon Go was released, until investors realized Nintendo didn’t make the game. Stock plummeted resulting in $6.4 billion loss in value.
E1Mn0 TIL world-renowned behaviorist B.F. Skinner worked with the US military and General Mills to create “Pigeons in a Pelican,” which involved training kamikaze pigeons to pilot a missile by pecking at it.
R77y1 Short answer: Depends on when you hit it
E1RNw TIL the most expensive vehicle registration plate number in Switzerland, "VS 1", was auctioned off for CHF 150'000 ($148,632 in 2017). Registration plates with low serial numbers or specific patterns ("TI 111 111") are very popular and are usually auctioned off.
LnwP TIL that astronomers found a star that formed in the same gas cloud as the Sun.