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TIL Trailerizing is the common technique where movie trailers use an old pop song and keep the lyrics, but make it slower and moodier. Viewers, otherwise disengaged, will be pulled in to the new movie trailer by the familiar lyrics

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6E1kZ TIL that Osama bin Laden loved sunflowers and one of al-Qaeda’s training centres was on his sunflower farm in Sudan
dX0d TIL that the Eagles football team had a temporary court set up in their stadium for six years due to their fans bad behavior.
E1Ppo TIL of the speed camera lottery in Stockholm, Sweden. Drive at or under the speed limit and you'll be entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from the fines that speeders pay. Average speed reduced from 32km/h to 25km/h (a reduction of 22%)
Lk6e0 TIL: In 1969 24 journalists came together to write the worst novel they could come up with to make fun of US’s vulgar and declining literary culture. That hoax book became a bestseller the same year.
o58o TIL in a dark room, it’s easier to see an object by not looking directly at it but rather next to it because of the distribution of cones and rods.