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TIL Alcoholics Anonymous groups use "thirteenth stepping" as a pejorative term for approaching new members of the groups for dates.

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R7Qjl TIL that a Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found in 1927 that waiters remembered orders only as long as the order was in the process of being served. Unfinished work continues to exert an influence, even when we try to move on to other things. This phenomenon was called The Zeigarnik Effect.
bNxZ TIL China has 1/5 of the worlds population, but only 7% of the planets fresh water and after ignoring the environment during its economic surge over the past few decades, over 80% of its groundwater in its major river basins is unsafe for humans
v1Box TIL Humans hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than they see so that everything that they perceive with their ears is coloring every other perception they have, and every conscious thought they have. Sound gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it.
p8g8Q TIL that of the 3,000 species of mosquitoes, just 3 species worldwide are responsible for all disease transmission to humans. Additionally, only female mosquitoes drink blood, and use a special anticoagulant to thin blood in capillaries before consuming it.
ajj0 TIL: The scientists who found gluten sensitivity evidence have now shown it doesn’t exist