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TIL slow music playing in a restaurant makes perception of time slow by about 13%, and also makes customers buy up to 40% more drinks than normal

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x61 TIL a convenience store clerk was fired for letting a robber steal too much while at gun point.
yKvp TIL that the compellingly challenging difficulty curve of Space Invaders (many slow enemies which become faster the fewer are left) wasn’t a design choice, but a hardware limitation. Furthermore, some historians attribute the runaway success of the game entirely to this single error.
Lkmkm TIL Australia has slower internet than countries like Kenya, Romania and Pakistan.
W77Go TIL there's a community of doomsday preppers in SD with bunkers spanning nearly 20 sq/mi
NeXQ TIL that NASA fastened a 1909 Lincoln penny to the exterior of the Curiosity mars rover for camera calibration purposes. Which means that future space archaeologists are going to be very, very confused