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TIL Eye placement, brow line, lips, and even nose position affect the symmetry of one’s face. As humans, we tend to think people with symmetrical features are more pleasing to look at, but science has given us an actual formula to map out a person’s beauty.

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vPpL4 TIL the constant mash and tug of starts and finishes is strong enough to detach the retina from drag racers' eyeballs. In the 1970s and 1980s some drag racers were knocked unconscious inside the cockpit by a horsepower-caused recoil dubbed “tire shake”
QNZak TIL Coal baron James Dunsmuir envisioned a medieval castle for his retirement and built Hatley Castle. It was like a small city on Vancouver Island with over 100 residents and servants in 1911. None of his children could afford the $1,500 monthly upkeep so it was sold at $260,000
v4jK TIL an autistic kindergartner, his mother, and his grandmother were handcuffed at a school. The child was taken to a psych ward and the grandmother had a rib broken, all because of a 5 y/o tantrum that wasn’t handled properly by the school.
aZEy TIL that the headphones/audio/electronics company Bose gets their name from their chairman, an Indian-American named Amar Bose. His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary, who fled Bengal to avoid persecution from the British colonial police.
eewk TIL that as many as 1.2 million US citizents of Mexican descent were forced out of the United States from 1929-1939 by federal and local authorities | It was claimed that the expulsions would free up jobs for “real Americans” during the Great Depression