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69voJ TIL That judges are more inclined to be lenient with sentencing after a having meal, and in turn, more severe before the break. This is called the Hungry Judge Effect.
awl0M TIL J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca Cola threatened in 1964 to move his company's headquarters out of Atlanta if the city did not hold a celebration honoring MLK receiving the Nobel Prize.
5Vd6B TIL Siemens, the unit of conductance, has an old equivalent called "mho". A reverse of ohmΩ, a unit of resistance, with inverted omega ℧.
xVA0 TIL the nuclear family started when Homo Ergasters’ pelvises narrowed for upright walking; this narrowed the birth canal which caused babies to be born with less developed (smaller) brains which caused mothers to lean on their partners for support since they’re busy caring for the helpless newborn
9Y1A6 TIL China invested $350 million in a new four-lane bridge crossing the Yalu River from Dandong to the North Korean city of Sinuiju. Dandong wants more trade and investment with North Korea, seeing the benefits if the North grows economically and correspondingly consumes Chinese products