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TIL Alarm fatigue is when alarms go off, or are tested, so often that we are desensitised to them.

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WkgQ8 TIL that giant ground sloths dug enormous burrows in South America thousands of years ago that still exist today. The biggest ones are over 6 feet tall and 2,000 feet long.
xk15 TIL “disc” and “disk” are two distinct terms with different meanings (discs are optical media, disks are magnetic media)
pQke TIL Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
XPnk TIL in 2011 a study found that individuals with high social anxiety had high empathy. The study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other people’s states of mind.
0Ogp TIL there is a relationship between pedophilia and lower IQ