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TIL that a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT and works at Tesla Motors.

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WZw4 TIL that The Ben Franklin effect is a proposed psychological phenomenon stating that when we do a person a favor, we tend to like them more as a result. This is because we justify our actions to ourselves that we did them a favor because we liked them.
l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
DNlp TIL That there is a Breaking Bad porn parody called “Breaking Bad XXX” in which porn has become illegal. Walter teaches film making and Hank is a vice cop they then go on a bust, only for Walter to catch former student Jesse making porn. Together they team up to legalize porn. [NSFW]
VBj4m TIL that Samsung doesn't just make electronics like Smartphones and TVs, but also tanks, container ships, and even Dubai's Burj Khalifa. Yeah, the tallest building in the world was built by a Samsung company 15 years ago, though not the same Samsung company that makes the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
1ajLO TIL: There is a language called Ithkuil which strives to maximize the amount of information conveyed per unit sound. There are currently no known fluent speakers of Ithkuil, including the language creator himself.