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TIL Steve-O Celebrated 10 Years of Sobriety by Participating in a Triathlon

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XQAR TIL in Thomas More’s Utopia, Utopian couples would see each other naked before they got married on the rationale that a man would not buy a horse before seeing every part of it beforehand.
OLLX TIL that in 1945, Dwight D. Einsenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
ANrwa TIL that the McGurk Effect shows how our brains integrate visual and auditory information for speech perception. If the visual information of a speaker’s mouth movements doesn’t match the sound, our brains may perceive a completely different sound.
9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot
bpR9 TIL the way you pay for something affects how you perceive the transaction. Using cash “hurts” more because the loss of money is perceived to be more immediate, while using a credit/debit card decouples the purchase from the loss of money.