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TIL a VR experiment showed people given the power of superhero flight and told to perform search and rescue were more willing to aid others afterwards than those who were given a helicopter and told to do the same thing.

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eaPD TIL that there is a siren for the Holocaust Remembrance Day that literally stops everyone in their tracks
0rLv TIL When developing the Macintosh computer, Steve Jobs wanted to add a small mysterious character who would appear after about every 1000 times you used an OS UI element. He would wink at you and disappear so fast that you wouldn’t be sure he was real.
v160x TIL President Ronald Reagan revealed he wore hearing aids in 1983, leading to greater acceptance and increased sales of the devices among seniors. At age 72, he said that his hearing loss dated to his early Hollywood days when a .38-caliber blank was fired close to his right ear on a film set
Br4k TIL That www.Whitehouse.com was a porn website until 2004.
DZyj TIL a cartoonist filed a lawsuit against DreamWorks for stealing his pitch “Kung Fu Panda Power” as a basis for “Kung Fu Panda.” He withdrew his lawsuit when it was discovered his drawings were traced from a Lion King coloring book. He currently faces charges for wire fraud and perjury.