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TIL In 2014 London Black Cabs protested against Uber by bringing gridlock across central London. Instead of damaging Uber, it brought a 850% increase in downloads of the app and hastened the black cabs decline.

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l7M8r TIL that in 1797, conditions at Rugby School were so bad that the pupils staged a "Great Rebellion". The headmaster's office was blown up with gunpowder and troops had to be called in to restore order. The ringleader later rose to the rank of General in the British Army.
770r TIL Credit card “chip” technology (aka EMV) that is being rolled out now in the US is almost 25 years old
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.
neOJr TIL that people in the Philippines say "Tao po" when knocking on someone's door. It translates to "I am a human being". It comes from the belief that evil entities cannot do human speech. "Tao po, hindi aswang" is the original phrase, meaning "I am a human, not a flesh eating monster"
e0nXb TIL That the human brain takes 1/10th of a second to interpret incoming information. Because of this we are technically always living in the past and that our brains have to predict what is going to happen in the next 1/10th of a second so we can react accordingly.