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TIL that the weight of silverware in restaurants impacts how much a customer is willing to pay for their meal

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R7X8l TIL of the incident when Soviet politician Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe to protest a pro-human rights speech of a Philippine senator at the UN
awNPb TIL that a nasal cycle is when people breath through one nostril and alternate between nostrils throughout the day.
dBwZ TIL A study on military funding in 2009 showed that a billion dollars spent by the U.S. government on domestic matters created ~35%-~135% more jobs than the same amount of money spent on military contracts.
ONPe TIL Adam Driver (Kylo Ren) was a US Marine
Ry1Q TIL that Doom was so popular in 1995 that it was installed on more PCs than Windows 95. Bill Gates briefly considered buying ID software, but settled for getting a team at Microsoft to port the game to Win95. The team was led by Gabe Newell.