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TIL There are no longer any Safeways, Walmarts, or chain grocery stores in the city of Detroit

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KYAN4 TIL In the 1980s, DeCasper studied whether fetuses could hear mothers’ reading. In several months, infants were tested to choose recordings with different stories to listen to. Surprisingly, but most of children chose to listen to the stories that their mothers had read to them prenatally
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye
oRP7L TIL there is a genus of fish whose scientific name literally translates to 'butt-face'
6Rm TIL, it’s possible for a fighter jet to travel so fast that it overcomes it’s own bullets and shoots itself down.
BvYk TIL potatoes absorb Wi-Fi signals the same way people do, and are used to test/improve internet signals on airplanes.