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TIL that McDonald’s Calorie Counters Do Not Cause Consumers to Make Healthier Meal Choices

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xVbn1 TIL about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry. He was a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later, earning him a place in history as one of the pioneers of astronautics.
PBgJ TIL that wasps are important. Not only do they help with pest control, in early summer wasps, like bees, pollinate plants and flowers as they feed on nectar. If we were to eradicate all wasps it would cause more problems than it would solve.
E1Ewp Til During the 'Well of Souls' scene in Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark most of the Cobras were Legless Lizards.
YnGv TIL alternative rock band The Flaming Lips released an album with four CDs that was designed so that when played simultaneously on four separate audio systems, the four CDs would produce a harmonic or juxtaposed sound
ma7y TIL in 1995 a plain clothes Boston Police officer was brutally beaten by his fellow officers after they mistook him for a fleeing suspect. BPD officers tried to intimidate and harass him into staying quiet afterwards.