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TIL It is illegal to leave your car unlocked in Australia

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RVxa TIL that our brains have the tendency to start to shut down when presented with ideology different from our own, with less blood being delivered to the parts of our cortex responsible for rational thought, until another statement is presented that confirms our beliefs
N76db TIL that the CIA was on a Quest For Mind Control. They used Torture, LSD And had a ‘Poisoner In Chief'
GYb9g TIL that Kurt Cobain's guttural and slurred voice contributed to the early resistance from radio stations towards adding Nirvana's most famous song: "Smell like teen spirit" to their playlists as it was hard to understand what Cobain was singing.
nXkb TIL the total number of energy used to mine Bitcoins daily is massive, with 982 megawatt hours a day, that’s enough to power roughly 31,000 U.S. homes, or about half a Large Hadron Collider.
p8L8G TIL there were more first responders that died due to illnesses linked to 9/11 than those that died on the day of the attacks.