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TIL of the Illusory Truth Effect which is when people will start to believe a lie if they hear it enough times simply because the "familiarity can over power rationality," causing something familiar to feel right.

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9wdl6 TIL at 4752m (15,590ft), Mila Mountain Tunnel in Tibet, China is the highest vehicular road tunnel in the world.
wkXW TIL that in April 2011, Oklahoma passed a law allowing only the Deceased to access their own Death Certificates without a court order.
BgGZr TIL that there are trees that benefit from being struck by lightning.
RN5w TIL Russia Outproduces Saudi Arabia in Oil Production by 1,000,000 barrels per day.
neYXB TIL that the common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory