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TIL of the 'McTaggart Paradox': a logical argument that our perception of time is an illusion- because it fundamentally contradicts itself- but also necessary to view events as moving together from past to future.

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47yX TIL after The Verve published Bitter Sweet Symphony, the band was sued twice by former Rolling Stones managers despite having signed a license. The Rolling Stones now receive 100% of the royalties, and Mick Jagger is officially listed as composer of a song written completely by Richard Ashcroft.
j61RN TIL in 2018 Barnum Animal Crackers freed its mascot animals from their cages, after 116 years of using the prior art design.
wojwW TIL a day on Mercury (a full rotation) takes twice as long (176 Earth days) as a year. A full revolution around the sun occurs every 88 Earth days.
mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
bJy0 TIL that installing blue streetlights resulted in a 9% decrease in crime in Nara, Japan. It also put an end to suicides at Keihin Railway’s Gumyoji Station after the railway installed blue lights on the ends of platforms.