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TIL ATM PINs were originally intended to have six digits, but have four because the inventor’s wife said she could only remember that many.

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VMZa4 TIL: In 2004, a study was conducted to test the correlation between video game usage and surgical performance. It turned out that of the doctors sampled, the surgeons who played video games at least 3 hours a week performed surgeries 27% faster and with 37% less errors than their counterparts!
OGPBg TIL The Voynich Manuscript is an unsolved codex which is over 500 years old. WW2 codebreakers amongst others, have been unable to solve it. The entire document was posted online in 2020.
KYVE TIL that modern knowledge on how the human body reacts to freezing is based almost exclusively on Nazi human experimentation.
6MLZ TIL that the first documented case of child abuse was reported to an animal welfare organization, for lack of a better resource. Which means that animals had welfare rights in the US before children did.
xVNo1 TIL NASA injected mice with moon dust from the apollo missions, including other species.