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TIL there are people that can see sound

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epPv5 TIL a Land Rover commercial was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority because it had sounds of beeping parking sensors as a Land Rover backs up closer to the edge of a cliff. Two viewers had submitted complaints because the SUV's rear parking sensors were not capable of detecting cliff edges
b9mm0 Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.
mdLO TIL Oscar Wilde said: “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
JyZV TIL in 19th Century France the skeleton of a 3.5M (11'6") tall neolithic human was discovered and scientifically examined
lRxN TIL Brittany Murphy’s husband died of the exact same causes (anemia and pneumonia) two years after her, in the exact same house, with no connection to the deaths.