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TIL humans are unable to burp in zero gravity environments.

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GYRRJ TIL that it is virtually impossible to die from quicksand in the way movies portray this.
yQAlV TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.
YpLov TIL about the spotlight effect, a phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. It comes from the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's.
wLb1Y TIL, On Pluto the Sun is just a dot that will hurt to look at.
wLono TIL in Anthem, Arizona, there's a veterans monument where each year on Nov 11th (veterans day) at precisely 11:11am the sun shines on it perfectly to reveal the Great Seal of the United States