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TIL that a famous study – showing that people supposedly do better on “trick” questions when printed in a blurry font, which makes them concentrate – was debunked as an artifact of small sample size. (The study was cited in Nobel-Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow.”)

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VOGZ TIL that an artist designed a euthanasia roller coaster to take people’s lives “with elegance and euphoria”.
6EAvl TIL that the country of Paraguay runs on 100% hydroelectric power and only consumes 10% of the electricity it generates, exporting the rest. Almost all of this power comes from the Itaípu dam, which also provides over 25% of Brazil's electricity.
XRgk TIL Jeremiah Denton blinked T-O-R-T-U-R-E in morse code while filming propaganda as a prisoner of war.
OGkn1 TIL Liechtenstein’s only lake is less than 100 years old, created by a flood of the Rhine
gRkD TIL that there are more fried chicken restaurants in South Korea than there are McDonald’s restaurants worldwide