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D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.
QNbx6 TIL that the world's oldest known work of art, created approximately 44,000 years ago, was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 2019. ​
J1ZXv TIL that the jet propulsion laboratory founder was part of a sex and ufo cult
eLAb TIL that smoking was not banned on airplanes in the US until 1988. And it was only a partial ban at that
wL5a1 TIL in 2001, drug kingpin El Chapo escaped from prison in a dirty laundry basket. After bribing multiple guards, he was wheeled out of prison hidden inside it. The escape allegedly cost him over $2.5m. Over 70 guards were implicated including the warden, who's now in prison for the part he played.