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TIL researchers repeated 100 studies published in three top psychology journals, and got the same results only 36 times

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D1BGD TIL that one of the victims who lost his house in the 1991 Oakland Firestorm was game designer Will Wright. He used the experience of rebuilding his life as basis for the concept of The Sims, and added the city's recovery from the fire as a scenario in the game SimCity 2000.
W7gko TIL Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a death ray capable of destroying entire armies.
0XxN TIL in 2010 the last batch of anti-venom for one of the most venomous snakes in the world expired and will no longer be produced or available due to lack of profitability.
QNe4k TIL that the Washington Monument is topped with an aluminum cap. When it was installed (1884), it cost roughly the same per ounce as silver and was considered a precious metal. Within 2 years, a new refining process developed that dropped the metal's price from $4.86/lb in 1886 to $0.78/lb in 1893
VBEKk TIL Cats Can Have Right or Left Paw Preference Similar to How Humans are Left-Handed or Right-Handed