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TIL Einstein proposed in an inch long equation: “Gravity” doesn’t pull, instead space pushes. “Gravity” is only the apparent effect of the bends in space. G = 8 π T

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BwLL TIL that Kelloggs made their cereal boxes thinner in 2008 but kept the price the same so that buyers wouldn’t perceive the smaller size box when viewed from the front.
m9mP TIL that Ford knew about defects on their cars but estimated lawsuits would cost less than fixing the cars, provoking more than a thousand avoidable deaths.
X54r TIL in 1979 when New York City made it illegal to carry open containers of alcohol in public, the law was pitched to only target the anti-social homeless. A city councilman supporting the law: “We do not recklessly expect the police to give a summons to a Con Ed worker having a beer with his lunch”.
w78 TIL Reading Rainbow, backed by Lamar Burton himself will be making a huge comeback as an iPad app to get kids hooked on books again.
8addG TIL Greenland has fossilized plants buried under 1.4 kilometers of ice. This implies the ice melted and reformed in the last million years.