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TIL Self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time to check out than customers in standard checkout lanes

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1MYr TIL Statistical analysis of hockey fights confirmed what coaches have long believed, that sending a player out to fight can significantly shift momentum in a game. Researcher Terry Appleby found that 76% of fights resulted in a ‘momentum surge’ for one team and 23% ended in a surge for both teams.
kxrg TIL - Lethal Weapon (1987) was the first movie to ever use a cell phone in a scene
RPa1 TIL that in 1890, 60 common starlings were released in Central Park in an attempt to introduce every bird mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to America. They became a pest, and there are currently 150 million of them.
j6M4p TIL the Hawaiian bobtail squid feeds a symbiotic bacteria living inside of it (called Vibrio fischeri) sugar & amino acids. In exchange, the bacteria emanate just enough light to match the moon's rays, rendering the squid virtually invisible at night
nekA9 TIL that Jennifer Lopez stole the majority of her songs and rarely actually sings in any of them.