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

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b6roZ TIL Uranus had been observed and catalogued multiple times going as far back as 128 BCE. However, due to its very slow orbit and dimness it was always misclassified as a star until 1781. The discovery that it was actually a planet effectively doubled the size of the known solar system.
5YPr TIL that Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits- 162 spoken, 38 written.
6B7l TIL that in Singapore, car buyers must pay for duties and bid for a Certificate of Entitlement, good for a decade. The cost of the Singaporean certificate of entitlement alone would buy a Porsche Boxster in the US
nelR9 TIL Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons in his childhood before his teacher, enthralled with Cash's unique singing style, advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.