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TIL about long-time nuclear waste warning messages, including a "landscape of thorns whose shape suggests danger and bodily harm".

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veex TIL that the primacy effect allows us to remember the first items in a list and the recency effect allows us to remember the last items in a list meaning the items in the middle of a list are often forgotten.
PYgRG TIL professional wrestling heels were hugely influential in the development of The Beastie Boys. "The idea of being bad-guy rappers, saying really outlandish things in interviews, that all came from a love of pro wrestling," said Rick Rubin.
ldnB TIL There are only two countries in the world where 100% of the population are recorded as being English speakers. These are Gibraltar and Nauru.
YkpW TIL that birds can actually see the earth’s magnetic field and use it like the head’s-up display in airplanes
J15vB TIL that in the 60s, the Metropolitan Police in London removed about 90 illegally-parked cars a day by simply driving them to the pound. Their vehicle removal units carried boxes of keys that fitted about 90% of vehicles, so towing was only necessary in the minority of cases.