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TIL turning down the radio in your car to concentrate more may actually increase visual acuity, it's your brains way of prioritizing tasks.

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EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Eal7 TIL of HitchBOT, a robot designed to rely on humans to get from place to place. It successfully hitched rides across Canada and Germany before attempting to thumb its way from Boston to San Francisco. The experiment ended in Philadelphia when vandals left HitchBOT decapitated on a street corner.
0dXw5 TIL: Humans and bananas share about 40 to 60 percent of the same DNA
gMme8 TIL in 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada’s capital because it was the midpoint between Toronto & Montreal thus a political compromise between English speaking & French speaking Canada
ZL7o TIL That the death of Henry Moseley, the man who discovered atomic number and thus why the order of the periodic table worked, was “the most costly single death of the war to mankind generally”