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TIL ‘Skyhook,’ used to capture Lau in The Dark Knight, was real.

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Y7eKr TIL that participants in a study, when controlling a robot by joystick, were unable to create any self-tickling sensation. This suggests that tickling depends on surprise/a lack of expectation, and that the brain regulates/blocks the sensation when it can anticipate it.
0wer5 So you’ve seen those location-tagging numbers on maps and GPS devices before, but do you actually know what they mean?
p88x4 TIL that last year in 2016, the first female South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office after leaked information gave evidence Park was being controlled by a shamanistic cult
pYGDZ TIL about Matthew Hopkins, believed responsible for the executions of 100+ “witches” in 1644–1646
Y76dG TIL Engineer Amos Neyhart originated driver education programs in the United States by starting to teach students how to drive in 1933. A drunk driver hit his parked car in 1931 and he believed that the frequency of traffic accidents was due, in part, to the lack of driver training