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TIL about the game, where you lose if you think about 'the game' and you must announce you lost the game

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1PG7 TIL Fiat’s original car factory was designed so that each car would progress upwards story by story as it was assembled until it was finalized at the top, where it would be tested on a rooftop test track.
p8lG8 TIL squirrels don’t take “fall damage” because their terminal velocity is too low for it to do any damage on impact, it’s the same with ants.
JYLml TIL that in 2003 Brandon Vedas live-streamed his own drug overdose & death while people told him to take more on IRC chatroom. One of his last sentences, as he took more, going unconscious and dying, was: "I told u I was hardcore". His mother was in the next room, thinking he was asleep.
Br5kr TIL that the first corn whiskey (the predecessor of bourbon) was produced in 1620
ZpZKQ Today I learned taking photos instead of actually viewing the scene causes your brain to outsource the memory; this causes you to not retain the information as detailed as you normally would. This is called the photo-taking impairment effect.