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TIL Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion

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VMAlG TIL in psychology there is a principle called “contrast” (if you left a heavy item first then a light item second, the second item will feel lighter than actually it is). That’s why online businesses show you the expensive items first so the less expensive items seem cheap and affordable to you.
ANMGo TIL Michael Jackson wanted to play Jar Jar Binks using prosthetics.
E1AMx TIL that Archimedes of Syracuse discovered Calculus 2000 years before Newton did, however this knowledge was unknown until 1907 when a book containing some of his lost works was found in Constantinoples.
bxa TIL 97% of girls in Egypt have had their clitoris cut off.
knB TIL that in a kingdom in India it was illegal for women to cover their breasts until the 19th century.