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TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.

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AaKg TIL that Bruce Lee’s kicks were so fast, that for one scene in Enter the Dragon they had to re- film it in slow motion so that it wouldn’t appear fake.
N7kOb TIL despite our thinking of the Big Bang as the universe’s “let there be light” moment, light did not exist until 240,000-300,000 years later.
A6Ad TIL Headaches are actually the structures around the brain hurting, not the brain tissue, as the brain has no pain receptors
X0J0E TIL in 2016, Nabisco released Swedish Fish Oreo cookies which contained "Swedish Fish flavor creme" and the consensus on social media concerning them was overwhelmingly negative.
gMk89 TIL Africa is larger in size than the United States, China and Brazil combined. While Russia, the most populated country in Europe, has a net population of approx. 145 million, Nigeria alone is home to approx. 195 million people. West Africa alone is home to 5% of the world's population.