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TIL, The British National Grid have to prepare for power surges due to so many people switching on kettles during advertisement breaks of popular shows.

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6keW TIL: The average American woman now weighs as much as the average American man in the 1960s
b6RY7 TIL: During Prohibition in the US, it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol, but it was not illegal to drink it. Some wealthy people bought out entire liquor stores before it passed to ensure they still had alcohol to drink.
jkGQ TIL scientists have found that the perception of time varies as a function of mass & metabolic rate across species. Smaller animals w/ faster metabolisms can respond to visual stimuli at a faster rate b/c they perceive movements & events to unfold more slowly (like bullet dodging in the Matrix).
noeb TIL Steven Spielberg and John Landis were charged with involuntary manslaughter following the deaths of three actors on the set of The Twilight Zone movie.
mJPY TIL that if you scale the age of the universe down to one calendar year, all of recorded human history takes place in the last 14 seconds of December 31