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TIL that walking through a doorway can cause you to “reset” your memory which causes you to forget why you went into another room in the first place.

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wop4W TIL scientists recovered DNA from the extinct miniature elephant on Sicily. Two different species of miniature elephants evolved separately on the same island. The smallest one was a meter tall and weighed about 300 kgs. The other was about 2 meters and 1,000 kgs.
epyNb TIL that macadam road is named after its inventor John Loudon McAdam.
a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.
Xd7k TIL : In 1191 King Richard I used chains made of silver to imprison the ruler of Cyprus because he had promised not to place him in irons.
e0VmE TIL All radio stations have a four-letter identification code. In a 1912 Conference, the United States was given the letters W, K, N, and A. ‘N’ and ‘A’ were given to military stations, Commercial Radio stations east of the Mississippi River used ‘W’, and west of the Mississippi ‘K’.