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TIL your brain can recognise a familiar face in about 100 milliseconds, faster than conscious awareness

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4XYDa TIL a Japanese man has been sending identical handwritten letters weekly to a hotel in the Netherlands for the last 40 years.
LkVOV TIL that the United Kingdom has invested in the world's biggest stockpile of plutonium (well over 100 tonnes) that could either provide us with thousands of years of unlimited energy or become a massive financial and environmental white elephant as nobody can agree on what to do with it.
oBGZ8 TIL in 1944, three American B-29 bombers on missions over Japan were forced to land in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, who did not have a similar strategic bomber, decided to copy the B-29. Within three years, they had developed the Tu-4, a nearly-perfect copy
VBXDk TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.
6X6J TIL that the aliens from the movie franchise Alien were based off of deep sea creatures found in Earth’s oceans.