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TIL Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and opened its doors to visitors for the first time in 2018

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kJg4W TIL that after we spontaneously blink, our subjective perception of time often makes the following moment feel slightly longer than it actually is.
xVW4w TIL legend has it that Franciscan padres who founded California’s missions brought mustard seeds from Spain and scattered them along the road that connects their missions. Since mustard is an invasive species, it created a trail of bright yellow flowers that the padres used to mark the road.
4Xpva TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.
8aWjX TIL that in World War 2 the Japanese made American and Filipino soldiers walk 96.6 km or 60 miles. They were subjected to physical abuse and given little to no food and water. With the death of thousand of soldiers it is called the "Bataan Death March"
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.