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TIL our brain perceives people who annoy us as moving slower than they actually are

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ANoDn TIL: The Pittsburgh Parking Chair is a thing
8ebVX TIL that the record for the shortest F1 career is just 2 metres of racing, achieved by German driver Ernst Loof, who only competed in the 1953 German Grand Prix
pYmQG TIL whilst on the set of City By The Sea Anson Mount ran lines for his next film, Crossroads, with the help of Robert De Niro reading the role of Britney Spears
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection
OopP1 TIL in 1986 a Russian commercial pilot made a bet with the first officer that he could land blind with curtains over the cockpit windows. He lost the bet, crashing and killing 70 people