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TIL Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest transport hub in the world - used by an average of 3.6 million people per day

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dDmLB TIL Researchers observed hundreds of students snogging in 1984 and concluded that kissing resulted in no transmission of the cold virus
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BgQoe TIL that the epistemological views of last head of Plato’s Academy Philo of Larissa are remarkably close to modern epistemology. He believed that even the most perfectly rational evidence and facts are compatible with massive errors and beliefs should be based on the available facts and evidence.
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