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TIL that the feeling of getting lost inside a mall known as the Gruen transfer is a form of manipulation.

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0wKZ5 TIL that Maurizio Cattelan, the artist who made the famous $120K duct-taped banana dubbed "Comedian," later made a fully-functional 227 lb 18k gold toilet dubbed "America". The toilet, estimated to be worth $5 million, was stolen the night after installation into Blenheim Palace in the UK.
aAVM TIL that Elvis Costello once drunkenly referred to Ray Charles as a “blind, ignorant nigger”. Charles forgave him, saying “drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.”
OGjER TIL that the left breast gets cancer more often than the right one.
e07k6 TIL that many fire departments, including the San Francisco FD, still prefer wooden ladders because they are non-conductors of electricity, the best natural insulator against heat, and only burn on the outside while the centre of wood remains solid and strong.
pYyvN TIL that Euclid's Parallel Postulate had no mention of parallel lines. Although parallel lines exist as a consequence of the postulate, the postulate actually describes how the opposite case arises: how lines intersect. Parallel lines are the negative case of the postulate: lines that never meet.