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TIL Inattentional deafness is when someone is concentrating on a visual task like reading, playing games, or watching television and are unresponsive to you talking, they aren't ignoring you necessarily, they may not be hearing you at all.

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P1aje TIL that by the time the place of origin for pepper had been located, the East India Company was chartered in 1601. By 1603, the EIC brought a million pounds of black pepper (1/4 the total demand in Europe) back to London
DQBnY TIL Indonesia briefly withdrew from the United Nations in 1965 in response to the election of Malaysia to the UN Security Council amid conflict between the two nations. Indonesia returned to the UN a year later after Sukarno's ouster. This remains the only time a country has withdrawn from the UN.
da1E TIL the actors who portrayed the king and queen in “Coming to America” were the same actors that play the king and queen in “The Lion King” (James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair)
e0JdE TIL that some people in Japan believe that a much loved Japanese baseball team is cursed by the KFC co-founder, Colonel Sanders after his statue was thrown into a river by the team's fans. This is known as "Curse of the Colonel"
kJ5XE TIL of the Apollo 15 postal covers scandal. The astronauts of Apollo 15 carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. All three were paid/bribed $7k each by stamp dealers, got busted, and never flew in space again.