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TIL that people often assume that attractive people are more successful and have better personalities than unattractive people, due to a cognitive bias known as the Halo Effect.

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rRrB0 TIL that an Italian atheist group wanted to advertise on buses "The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is you don't need it". When they were refused, they changed it to "The good news is there are millions of atheists in Italy. The excellent news is they believe in freedom of speech"
GAk41 TIL. The marathon distance of 26.2 miles is not the distance between Marathon and Athens, but was established by the Queen of England for the 1908 Olympics.
R57pj TIL of East Asian age reckoning. An age counting system common in China Korea Japan and Vietnam. People are considered to be one the day they are born and on New Years Day a year is added. This creates the scenario where children born on December 31 become two-year-olds the very next day.
bvxa TIL that the longest movie ever, called The Cure for Insomnia was 87 hours of “artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem "A Cure for Insomnia” over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.“
VMBgm TIL The Hawkhurst gang were a group of smugglers in England, who by the late 1840s had developed unprecedented power, and were a law unto themselves for over a decade. They boasted they could assemble 500 men in the space of a couple of hours.