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TIL of the Bouba/Kiki Effect. When people are asked to assign the name "Bouba" or "Kiki" to two amorphous shapes —one round & one spiky— they strongly tend to choose Bouba for the round one, and Kiki for the spiky. This has been robustly confirmed across a majority of cultures & languages worldwide.

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VGvm TIL that Cannabaceae, a family of flowering plants, includes not only Cannabis, but also Humulus (better known as hops), a main ingredient in beer.
j69Gj TIL that Danionella cerebrum, a species of fish no larger than 13.5 mm and with the smallest adult volume brain of any vertebrate, is capable of producing a sound of over 140 decibels.
a8gro TIL although chopsticks have supplanted spoons for eating rice in China and Japan, Korean people continue to use spoons to eat rice and alternate back and forth with chopsticks during a meal
Oo0d1 TIL Target had to apologize after a labeling error resulted in plus-sized customers feeling insulted. Target was selling two dresses of the same color but at different sizes. The small was listed as "Gray" while the larger's color was listed as "Manatee Gray". Target pulled the dresses.
mxx5o TIL Monty Python's, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is played over the PA system at the end of every Iron Maiden concert.