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TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay

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v1ypR TIL about the IKEA effect which is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
XEdnQ TIL DMX successfully escaped an upstate new york prison in ‘86, two weeks into his sentence
8aG6V TIL in 1957, BBC pulled a April Fools prank by including a segment about spaghetti harvest in their news show Panorama, discussing how spaghetti is grown in fields in Switzerland. As a result, people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
a8gdN TIL that 30-50% people actually have an internal monologue, and that this concept is not made up by movies and cartoons
Me0aB TIL that in 1964 Canada honored John F. Kennedy by naming the tallest unclimbed mountain in North America "Mt. Kennedy." In 1965 Robert F. Kennedy, as part of a National Geographic expedition, became the first person ever to reach the summit.