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TIL We Perceive People that Annoy Us as Moving Slower than They Are

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9wrJm TIL on Disneyland’s opening day in 1955, an invitation-only crowd of 15,000 was expected, but thanks to counterfeit tickets, 28,154 entered the gates. A few more even scaled a fence, using a ladder erected by an entrepreneur who charged $5 a head. On the Santa Ana Freeway, there was a 7-mile backup
b9WvE TIL that the city of Denver was originally awarded the honor of hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics. The people of Colorado, however, voted against funding the games, and Innsbruck ended up hosting them. This is the only time in history that a city has been awarded the games, but rejected them later.
j6ebp TIL that the us military trained pilots over the Great Lakes.
l7jL5 TIL when people are asked to pick a “random number between 1 and 100,” the most common answer is 37
jNeEN TIL that the Unabomber was a victim of MK-Ultra.