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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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d86Vd TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.
grO8L TIL Life expectancy in the U.S. varies considerably by state, with West Virginia trailing California by 6.9 years and Hawaii by 7.9 years
e1e5 TIL That In 2011, the United Nations declared that access to the Internet is a basic human right.
Br0lb TIL about Ed Reeves, a US marine who survived the Korean War despite having shrapnel in his legs, being shot in the head, and getting beaten with rifle butts by the enemy soldiers. Despite all of this, he was able to crawl out onto the frozen Chosin Reservoir, where he was rescued.
J1Oev TIL that taking fingerprints of those arrested by law enforcers is an official practice which goes back to Ancient Babylon, during the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE)