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TIL American school buses are yellow because you see yellow faster than any other colour, 1.24 times faster than red in fact.

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4dRg TIL that Nacho Doritos were scientifically designed to be addictive by hitting every sensation as perfectly as possible.
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BrVmk TIL that in the 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach performed an experiment in which three men with Messianic delusions lived together for two years. He wanted to study how they would reconcile their delusions with the existence of two others with the same irrational belief.