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TIL In a study on memories conducted between 1973-2013, research showed Women perform better when it comes to remembering verbal information, such as words, sentences, texts, and objects, but also the location of objects, and movies while Men can better recall abstract images and remember directions

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6EQ8Y TIL of Nazi official Herbert Backe, who masterminded the WWII program to starve Eastern Europe. After the Allied victory he flew to Eisenhower's headquarters, perceiving himself as a leading expert on solving hunger problems and expecting a discussion with the general. He was imprisoned.
Vd1D Sean Bean is terrified of flying. So during Lord of the Rings when the cast had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter, like the snowy mountains, he travelled part of the way via ski-lift and then spend two hours walking the remainder of the journey, in full Boromir costume.
E1VN7 TIL the physicist Arthur Holly Compton, whose "scattering" experiment showed that photons have momentum, invented the "speed hump" on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis
loR0a TIL: NASA calculated that Three Gorges Dam (Hubei) affected earth rotation. When the water level is at its maximum the dam contains 39.3 km3 of water and this altered the Earth’s moment of inertia slowing it's rotation of 0.06 microseconds.
GaE5 TIL in the 1960s, the CIA spent over $20 million dollars implanting radio equipment into a cat to spy on the Kremlin. After being released outside the Soviet compound in Washington DC for it’s first mission, it was immediately struck by a taxi and died.