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TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's smallest park

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6mwJ TIL a researcher in the 1970s blindfolded participants and told them they were going to play tug-of-war against another team. When they were told they had 3 others pulling with them, they pulled 18% less strenuously than when they were told they were alone. The effect is now known as social loafing.
BgQPL TIL that the East Los Angeles Interchange, located in Boyle Heights, California, is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. Handling over 550,000 cars a day.
9Z6m TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”
eNk6 TIL Michael Jackson was bald and wore wigs to conceal it. Autopsy report confirms.
R7GVQ TIL That Famous Actor Peter Dinklage used to play in a punk band named “Whizzy”