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TIL Dunbar's research suggests that humans can comfortably maintain approximately 150meaningful relationships. These relationships can range from close family and friends to more distant acquaintances. Beyond the number, it becomes increasingly challenging to remember and maintain social connections

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8eJPb TIL about wheel-well stowaways, individuals who hide in the landing gear compartments of planes. Between 1947 and 2015, the FAA recorded 113 such attempts, with a staggering 76% fatality rate. Most stowaways were young men, and many remain unidentified.
GAxBN TIL that Eisenhower had an alternate speech prepared in case the D-Day invasion failed in which he takes full responsibility for the failure by calling the decision to attack “my decision” and going on to write: “If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
NXnjb TIL The Panará tribe lived mostly isolated from the rest of the world until 1973, when the Brazilian government had a highway built directly through their territory. Within a year, 70% of the tribe had died of newly introduced diseases.
M7XQ8 TIL of the Window Tax, where England homes would be taxes according to the number of windows they had, leading to windows getting boarded up to avoid the excess tax.
pa6N TIL the Lamborghini Countach gets its name from a exclamation of astonishment at the sight of a beautiful woman in a regional dialect specific to Northern Italy. Most other Lamborghini’s name are references to bullfighting.