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TIL Research shows that taller people are happier but shorter people live longer

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nW9jr TIL about carbon credits, which can be purchased by companies and individuals to offset the carbon dioxide they produce.
9llQ TIL Teller (from Penn & Teller) began his silence during his youth when performing for college fraternities. He found that if he was silent, they would stop throwing beer and focus on his act.
VM5Wk TIL about Boston Brahmins - upper class English colonists who saw themselves as the social equivalent of Brahmins in the Indian caste system
dJwQ TIL that US police detectives have worn suits for more than 100 years. Dressing formally is “psychological armor”; it “establishes a barrier between them and the messiness” of police work, says a psychologist.
W7DB4 TIL that Pudding Lane in London, later famous as the starting place of the Great Fire, was also one of the world’s first one-way streets. In 1617 carts were ordered to move only one way, an experiment not repeated in London until Albemarle Street in 1800.