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TIL Shorter people build higher ceilings inside their buildings in Minecraft while taller people will build lower ceilings. Egocentric Reference Frames cause us to build upon our environments in a way that we are accustomed to seeing them.

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pGEA TIL One of most powerful releases of oxytocin is stimulation of the nipples, also kissing!
jNW8n TIL that the Beatles spent 34 hours recording the song "A Day in the Life" as they needed multiple takes to perfect the orchestral parts and the famous final chord. By contrast, the Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me, had been recorded in its entirety in only 15 hours, 45 minutes.
XEknr TIL China has banned 'seductive' banana-eating while live-streaming to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content
XEpnQ TIL a 71 year old man from Palm Beach, Florida tied a gun to a weather balloon, inflated it, then shot himself to death... successfully faking his own murder
KOV6 TIL that in Fight Club, the line “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school” was a replacement for “I want to have your abortion”. Fox objected to use of the original line but wanted to go back after reading the new line but couldn’t because of the deal they made with David Fincher.