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TIL: A study showed reading text in a font slightly more difficult to read (ex: Comic Sans) found students remembered more than reading in easier fonts (ex: Arial)

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m1NGM TIL, the color, magenta, is a fabrication of human psychology.
9YKKD TIL a sense of humor belongs to the set of strengths positive psychologists call transcendence; together they help us forge connections to the world and provide meaning to life. Appreciation of humor correlates with other strengths, too, such as wisdom and love of learning.
DWPe TIL that there is a fictional island in the South Atlantic, off the west coast of Africa, at lat/long 0,0, called ‘Null Island’. Although it doesn’t exist in reality, it serves as an error trap for map systems. Map enthusiasts have given the island its own history, geography and even flag.
l7jG5 TIL the B-52D Stratofortress is the largest aircraft in history to score an air-to-air kill. Two North Vietnamese MiG-21s were shot down by B-52 tail gunners during Operation Linebacker II in December 1972.
QJZx9 TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s