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TIL We spend up to 47 percent of our waking lives letting our minds wander.

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QMB6 TIL Pripyat amusement park never officially opened and was to open just five days after the disaster
evp4 TIL The Diary of Anne Frank was actually most successful in Japan. The Japanese identified with her “as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.”
Abrw TIL Jaywalking was made a law due, in part, to a deliberate effort by promoters of automobiles, such as local auto clubs and dealers, to redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong.
6E4k7 TIL Helly Juell Hansen was a Norwegian captain that first produced clothes in 1877 to protect his crew against the harsh Nordic weather. His revolutionary new product infused linseed oil into cotton fabric. 141 years later, in 2018 the company was sold to Canadian Tire for $985 million.
b99Y9 TIL in 1985 a drunk student hijacked a Boeing in Trondheim, Norway demanding to talk to the prime minister. He later surrendered in exchange of more beer.