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TIL that the type of music you listen to can change how you think.

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grRrW TIL a Canadian engineer once built a Mjölnir replica that only the "worthy" could lift: it sensed the iron ring commonly worn by Canadian engineers (presented in a ceremony called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer), triggering an electromagnetic release so ring-wearers could pick it up.
6N8w TIL that researchers from the University of Sheffield polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns;all 250 children in the study, whose ages ranged between four and sixteen, reported that they found clowns frightening and disliked clowns as part of hospital decor.
GJRQ TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.
8a0AP TIL: Grand Theft Auto V is the highest grossing media title of all time. The game made more money than any movie, album, or video game. It made twice as much money as the highest grossing film of all time.
KOB49 TIL that the Walther PPK, the firearm famously used by James Bond, was the same used by Adolf Hitler to commit suicide