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TIL there are over 200 "wind phones" in the US where grieving people can 'talk' to relatives - they feature an old-fashioned phone booth with a phone with a dial on it, and were first popularized in Japan after the Fukushima tsunami

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VM6P0 TIL that Paul Stanley of KISS was born with Microtia, a condition that leaves people with no ear(s); Paul has only his left ear and is deaf on his right side.
x6r1g TIL A phenomenon called "change blindness": An experiment found that nearly half of people failed to notice when the person they were talking to was replaced with someone else after a brief visual distraction.
ZGv TIL lobster is now cheaper than deli meat
loL0N TIL that the Lascaux cave was discovered accidentally by 4 teenagers and their dog- the cave has 17,000 year old paintings, including extinct animals like the Aurochs, and hand prints. The French government had to make a replica (Lascaux II) since tourists causes mold to grow
l445 TIL that a US poll conducted in 2016 found, for the 8th year in a row, that “whatever” is considered to be the most annoying word.