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TIL….British accents noticeable change within the UK every 25 miles

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AD9Dn TIL that bathroom hand dryers suck fecal bacteria from the room and sprays it directly on your hands.
0d9KN TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer.
l77nA TIL, the London clay that the underground railway - "the tube" - locks the heat generated by the railway and has gradually been getting hotter. in the 1900s it was 14°C, today it is nearly 25°C. Most of the heat comes from the trains braking.
LQLrr TIL that "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna & Barbera was the first animated series to win an Emmy Award as an "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Children's Programming". It won the award in 1960.
E18oV TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.