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TIL a 3-bedroom house in Flint, Michigan can be bought for $420

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rRxmd TIL,"the Stopped Clock Illusion". Rapidly move your eyes away from a clock and back to it, and you will notice the second hand taking more time to move than expected. The brain filters the blurry images you see in-between while moving your eyes and replaces it with the image of first thing you see.
loBQB TIL that MIT made a game to gather a human perspective on moral decisions made by AI of self-driving cars. A driverless car must choose the lesser of two evils
yZKV TIL there was an ancient highly sought after Roman spice called ‘Silphium’ that was so valuable and desired that it was worth its weight in silver coins; however, this demand led to its over-harvesting, which is thought to have contributed to its eventual disappearance and extinction by 68AD.
KODL6 TIL in 2011, a woman with bipolar disorder tried to enter a resturant via air duct but got stuck on the way. Because of where she was stuck, no one could hear her and she was found dead days later
p8mGN TIL many experts regard the United States as entirely uninvadable, because of the country's major industries, reliable and fast supply lines, large geographical size, population size, difficult regional features, armed citizenry, and strong military force.