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TIL in most ordinary people, our two ears are not equally good at processing verbal input: there is a right ear advantage (REA) that makes us perceive verbal input from this side more clearly

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9YNmp TIL Liechtenstein is so small Switzerland has invaded it 3 times by mistake. On one occasion the Swiss started a forest fire when they misfired a rocket in bad weather. Another time Swiss cadets stumbled into a Liechtenstein village and they didn’t find out until the Swiss formally apologized.
rRXKM TIL Buttered Popcorn is the most popular jelly bean flavor in America
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.
164jd TIL that the last woolly mammoths survived on isolated Wrangel Island off Siberia until approximately 2000 BC, long after their mainland extinction around 10,000 years ago. This means they coexisted in time with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (about 2560 BC).
d8eDK TIL that in 1947, the Kiwanis Club of Ahoskie, N.C. held a drawing for a New Cadillac. When a Black Navy Veteran won, they announced there had been a mistake, refunded the winner the $1 price of his ticket, and drew again for a white winner.