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TIL: A Man In India Has Planted A Forest Bigger Than Central Park to Save His Island

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QJdPM TIL the term apophenia is the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.
VBEaG TIL there was a pyramid constructed in Park Avenue, New York to commemorate the end of WW1. It was made out of 20,000 helmets from their vanquished German foes.
4bg TIL that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.
a8lvL TIL Wrexham Lager was one of only two beers served on the Titanic, brewed in Wales but advertised as from 'Wrexham, England' to appeal to American passengers
9wP5r TIL about Kintsugi. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. It signifies the breaking of an object as a part of its past, and not something to be hidden or embarrassed about.