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TIL that kellogg’s claim that their cereal “improves kids’ cognitive functions by nearly 20%” was based on a study where the control group was given no breakfast, and the improvement was 11%

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E96V TIL in 2008, lead singer and bassist of Rush, Geddy Lee, had one of the largest collections of Negro Baseball League memorabilia and formally donated it all to the Negro Baseball League museum in Kansas City, MO.
9wDn6 TIL There are over 13,000 bird strikes annually in the US alone
J1yrQ TIL that because the period (.) was already in use in France to make Roman numerals more readable, they adopted, along with many other countries, commas to separate numbers and decimals (9.99 vs 9,99)
WkvvL According to Texas A&M’s Urban Mobility Report 2019, the average auto commuter spends an extra 54 hours in his or her car every year on top of the time it should actually take to get to the office. If you live in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, that figure doubles. In Los Angeles, for example, commuters spend 119 hours each year delayed in their cars—that’s almost three full weeks spent idling.
RDv6 TIL that the voice actress for Bubbles from “The Powerpuff Girls” has done 573 other credited voice roles, including Timmy Turner from “The Fairly OddParents”, Dil Pickles from “The Rugrats” and Omi from “Xiaolin Showdown”.