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TIL that we haven’t evolved quickly enough to adapt to society’s overwhelming stimuli otherwise known as supernormal stimuli

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VMYwk TIL Arizona has a law called the “Stupid Motorist Law” that allows the state to charge drivers for their rescue if they ignore barricades and get stuck in flooded roadways
8aXgb TIL in the mid-2000s Kevin Smith was approached about the possibility of a Jay & Silent Bob/Hellraiser crossover as sort of a 21st century Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. They would have opened the box and their version of Hell would have been rehab.
grZRD TIL that the largest hotel chain in the U.S. by number of locations is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with 6,083 locations across the country.
x6w5 TIL Sea Turtles have rectal gills that help them stay underwater longer. They are the only animals that have this adaptation
x60J1 TIL in the African country of Equatorial Guinea, they are building a new city called Ciudad de la Paz to replace the current capital, Malabo, because the new capital is on the mainland of the country making access to the capital easier since the current capital is on an island far from the mainland.