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TIL that words are encoded in our mind on the basis of their shapes and sizes instead of their actual meaning.

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9wZyX TIL of the Y2k38 Problem. Similar in nature to the Y2K bug, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to process the date and time may not be able to cope with the time change and could revert to the year 1901.
OokdL TIL that Argentina tried to sink a British warship in Gibraltar during the Falklands War in 1982
oRMKK TIL Justin Chancellor of Tool worked on an album with Death Grips
N76P6 TIL Bill Murray closed his deal on Meatballs the day before it started shooting and routinely ignored the script. His first day, he improvised his way through a scene where he’s introducing all the counselors-in-training – he showed up, read the pages and threw them away, saying, “I got this.”
DwDY TIL old people smell is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin