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TIL that Toyota has used soybeans in their plastic coating which attracts hungry rodents...

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P1N7e TIL about the Hindsight bias: also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.
ZpX6Y TIL that the largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume and is believed to be from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
8eBKX TIL: A political decoy is a person employed to draw attention away from a politician and to take risks on that their behalf.
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