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TIL the family dog has a bigger carbon footprint than an SUV

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JYvZ8 TIL the moon appearing larger on the horizon is known as the Problem of Luna Mendex and is actually an illusion of the eye. The illusion can be broken by cupping your hand into a fist and looking through it at the 'large' horizon moon. It will immediately shrink in size.
pYQwb TIL Sony used air mortars to shoot 250,000 bouncy balls down San Francisco hills for a commercial instead of using CGI in 2005. They broke $74,000 worth of windows.
j6E6E TIL that Rwandan cricketer Eric Dusingizimana created a Guinness World Record by batting for 51 hours continously (inclusive of food break) at an indoor cricket nets in Rwanda in order to raise funds to build an international cricket ground in Rwanda
padO TIL in 1939 The New Times predicted the television would not be successful because it required people to sit and keep their eyes glued to a screen, which no one had time for.
oV7E TIL Bryers Ice Cream, the company that prided itself on using only few, all natural ingredients had to change their labels to read “Frozen Dairy Dessert” because based on the ingredients they couldn’t legally sell their product as ice cream.