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TIL: Stress makes people perform badly because it takes up space in the ‘working memory’ making less memory available for performing the task at hand

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4kaPg TIL of the Astronomical Unit, or AU, a unit of length equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, measuring 149,597,870.7 kilometres exactly. It's also a fundamental component in defining another unit of astronomical measurement, the parsec.
Pprg TIL until Dec 2013, McDonald’s employee help site advised workers to take food stamps, break food into smaller pieces to feel fuller, seek refunds for unopened presents, sell possessions online, and to “quit complaining” as “stress hormone levels rise by 15 percent after ten minutes of complaining.”
AJJ7 TIL that during late WW2, the Nazis designed a plane named the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. It flew so fast that it was untouchable by enemies, but it went so fast that its own pilots weren’t capable of shooting enemy aircrafts before their plane flew past their adversaries.
OodEe TIL That in Canada coins are only considered legal tender up to a certain amount. For instance, if you attempt to pay for a $50 purchase with a wheelbarrow full of nickels, the local authority can refuse to accept the payment.
p8xA4 TIL a German company developed a pane glass for windows that replicates the way birds see spiders' webs so they will avoid flying into them, thus greatly reducing the high avian death rate caused by collision with building windows