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TIL that installing blue streetlights resulted in a 9% decrease in crime in Nara, Japan. It also put an end to suicides at Keihin Railway’s Gumyoji Station after the railway installed blue lights on the ends of platforms.

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jN04v TIL a Formula 1 driver can lose up to 3 kilograms of weight after each race. This weight loss is mainly due to intense sweating during the race. The temperature in the cockpit can reach up to 50 degrees Celcius.
Vmr0 TIL that out of 1.086 million high school football players, only 70,147 begin a college football career, out of which only 6500 get scouted by the NFL, 350 get invited to the combine, 256 get drafted and only 150 (0.01%) last at least four years in the NFL.
eYg TIL Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency. The result? The monkeys used it to buy….sex.
gMbgD TIL Jim Jones was an American psychopathic cult leader so charismatic and persuasive that he was able to convince people to assassinate a congressman, an NBC TV crew, and his own 1,222 followers to commit suicide
Aya7 TIL Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “La Lecture” depicts Picasso’s mistress asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.