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TIL in 2018 BBC4 Gave an App to 18,000 people in the UK to simulate how a pandemic flu would spread. The results were scary accurate, and promptly ignored.

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60YX TIL listening to soft voices can cause “brain orgasms” (aka autonomous sensory meridian response). A video of a woman explaining how to fold towels has over 900,000 views because her voice can trigger the sensation.
gV9 TIL that the Malaysian “Assassin Bug” not only kills and eats its victims, but also wears its victims corpses on its body as part of its suit of armor.
D17Wp TIL the process of dry cleaning was invented in 1821 by an African American business owner named Thomas Jennings. He was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent. He had to use the proceeds from his invention to buy his wife and children out of slavery.
P1ne TIL: Audio cassette data storage was once so popular in some countries that radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record and then load into their computer.
GZ75 TIL that dangerous highways in Korea play a melody only when a car is travelling the speed limit, successfully preventing accidents by keeping people awake and encouraging them to travel at a safe speed.