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TIL that I am able to get my credit report for free because of a law that was enacted.

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4epN TIL James Cameron altered the stars in the night sky of the raft scene in Titanic 3D after Neil DeGrasse Tyson sent him a “snarky email” pointing out that the star field would have been different in 1912.
N1kJ TIL that people tend to significantly overestimate how noticeable their embarrassing behaviors are to others, due to a cognitive bias known as the Spotlight Effect.
WwjL TIL the infamous RickRoll’d video is not available in the United States anymore.
LyMd TIL In 1986, a team of Canadian researchers exhumed the body of William Brane, a sailor who died 140 years earlier during the Franklin Expedition of 1846. After being removed from the permafrost and thawed, the body was still flexible, and intestinal flora were found still living inside.
0wKMj TIL that in April 1831, in northern England, the combined and synchronised footsteps of a British Army unit induced mechanical resonance in a suspension bridge, which caused its collapse and many injuries. British Army practice is now that all troops must break step as they cross bridges.