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TIL about the Illusory truth effect, also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure

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y7Qv TIL that opium production in Afghanistan increased following the US invasion in October 2001
9YpEp TIL drone bees ejaculate with such explosive force it can be heard by human ears, described as a "popping" sound. It's so powerful it ruptures the bees penis, resulting in it's death.
R5M89 TIL that the USA uses two different networks to detect and map lightning strikes in real time through the use of radio waves emmited from the strikes.
P1Jee TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
P1LBw TIL Edith Cowan, best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament, lived a life of tragedy as a child. Her mother died when she was seven. At the age of 15, her father, Kenneth Brown, was executed for the murder of her stepmother, making her an orphan.