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TIL in 1997 a Great White Shark was killed by an Orca (Killer Whale) causing other Great Whites in the area to flee

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WkYx9 TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor
E1oj7 TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.
wo807 TIL that Stitch’s Great Escape! at Disney World was originally a notoriously scary attraction called ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which was in turn originally going to be an Alien movie ride with an animatronic Ripley and Giger-inspired architecture.
M7emK TIL that 1.6% of the general population has Borderline Personality Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by hypersensitivity to rejection and resulting instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect and behavior.
b9Mw0 TIL The Placebo Effect doesn’t really have clinical significance when you account for the myriad of variables present in clinical trials. Placebos do about as good as “no treatment arms” in most studies with objective criteria.