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TIL that while Beijing’s pollution problem is more televised, New Delhi is the most polluted city in the world.

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N71ne TIL about Cognitive Bias, which is is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. People create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.
R7M16 TIL Einstein was still working on his Theory of Everything while laying on his deathbed, in the last hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness.
J1Dol TIL when NASA announced an amnesty for people to give them debris from the Columbia shuttle explosion, some people turned in Challenger debris
LkAgZ TIL Socrates left no written work, and all we know about him is what other people (specifically Plato) wrote about him
j9KM TIL that an Ohio woman who abandoned kittens was sentenced to sleep in the woods, with no food or entertainment.