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TIL about the "flow state", a state your brain enters when you're completely absorbed in an activity that makes you forget about time.

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rNKBy TIL the "Toyota War" was an international military conflict during which the Chadian army warded off Gaddafi's tank-equipped Libyan invasion with one of the first large scale uses of civilian technicals (Toyota Land Cruisers with heavy weaponry mounted to them).
k5ad TIL that there is a system for threatened airline pilots to remove control and navigation capability from everyone on the plane, including themselves, using an Autopilot that cannot be over-ridden from within the plane. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
4kmVa TIL of a big science guy named einstern
P1JGw TIL that the 2020 Beirut explosion left approximately 300,000 people homeless.
E1l6o TIL rabbits are bad luck on the Isle of Portland so much so that if a quarry worker saw one, the whole crew would go home until the area was deemed safe to return.