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TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand

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gMx68 TIL that the Lotus Bridge between left-lane-driving Macau and right-lane-driving China allows for traffic to seamlessly switch the side of the road that they are driving on at the border.
dDpw8 TIL the previous Pope Leo (the 13th), is the earliest-born person to be filmed, as far as we know. Born in 1810, his image was captured in 1898 by film inventor William Dickson. He blessed the camera while being filmed.
4pDg TIL that most of the slaves in the New World by the mid 1600’s were, in fact, white.
kOLG5 TIL that Lillian Gilbreth, the real mother from Cheaper by the Dozen, was also one of the first women to earn a PhD in engineering, pioneered the field of industrial psychology, and invented the pedal trashcan.
VMAVk TIL Of all the biting and stinging creatures in Australia, bees and wasps are responsible for more hospital admissions then any others, and caused as many deaths as snakes. Horses killed more than all other venemous creatures combined.