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TIL Spanking increases rates of childhood defiance and mental health issues. The study in question involves 50 years worth of research and more than 160,000 children

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WkvvL According to Texas A&M’s Urban Mobility Report 2019, the average auto commuter spends an extra 54 hours in his or her car every year on top of the time it should actually take to get to the office. If you live in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, that figure doubles. In Los Angeles, for example, commuters spend 119 hours each year delayed in their cars—that’s almost three full weeks spent idling.
ZbJp TIL One of the reasons Microsoft chose the “Bliss” wallpaper for XP was because humans are instinctively attracted to open fields since they allow us to see any predators or prey very quickly. Resulting in your brain releasing endorphins as you use the operating system.
N75pJ TIL that a Czech general once ordered his skin to be made into a war drum, which was beaten in times of emergency.
xV0mg Today I learned that Shakespeare signed his name a number of different ways, and only more recently did people settle on the accepted spelling
woV1o TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch