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TIL In 2011 3-D mapping revealed an ancient Mayan city under a Guatemalan rain forest

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vrK4 TIL Elevator ‘close door’ buttons in the U.S. were made to be unresponsive or have a delayed response because of a section in the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) that mandates the doors stay open a min. of 3 seconds to allow those with disabilities to enter/exit
6YGY TIL Spinal Tap is the only movie on IMDb to be rated out of 11 stars
oROpE TIL: In 1965, psychology researchers would often lie to elementary school teachers to conduct their experiments. Like this one, called the Pygmalion effect by Rosenthal and Jacobson.
Oo09R TIL Most of the 30 killed in the sinking of the Britannic were dismembered when their lifeboats were pulled into the propellers when the captain attempted to beach the ship. One person survived the propellers- Violet Jessop, who had also survived the sinking of Britannic's sister ship, Titanic.
LKJp TIL there is a word: “Mamihlapinatapai”, from the Yaghan language, which is considered the most succint and hardest word to translate: it means: “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.”