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TIL about Bikeshedding: draining time & resources on insignificant details, so the core issues are ultimately neglected.

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xVjPB TIL that Metallica was the first band to perform on all seven continents by performing live and un-amplified (to protect the environment) in Antarctica.
E6Qd TIL that there is a limit of 12 minutes of commercials, per hour of television, in the United Kingdom.
5VGMp TIL in 2015, a 70 year old man in China spent 57 days in the hospital after a panda arrived at his farm and attacked him.
yQgPV TIL All mammals (and possible all animals) have, within an order of magnitude, the same number of heart beats in their lifetime
BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”