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TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent, cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy

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1LA7 TIL Charles Lyne, a British filmmaker, raised $8486 to force two people to watch a 10 hour 7 minute movie of paint drying. Those two people were employees of the BBFC, responsible for classifying movies, and the stunt was done to protest the BBFC’s power of censorship.
VMleZ TIL White Castle became popular because of public reaction to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. To make sure that customers thought their food was clean, the buildings were painted completely white, the interiors were made of stainless steel, and the employees all wore spotless uniforms
lWba TIL that Déja Vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like its happened.
6EexY TIL Global Positioning System (GPS) is owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force. The US makes it freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver but can selectively deny access to the system.
J50k TIL LA was the first major city to sync all it’s traffic lights, doing so in 2015 after initially promising to do so in 1984. The completed synchronization supposedly increased travel speed by 16 percent and reduced travel times by 12 percent.