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TIL Kids aged from 2 to 11 in the U.S. see an average of 26,000 ads a year.

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xVLvk TIL the older we get, the area in the brain responsible for filtering noises in the background and make us concentrate gets weaker. that's why elderly people have trouble driving. They focus too much on the background of moving objects, and not enough on the actual moving objects in the foreground
R7om6 TIL that the ground cinnamon sold in most stores is actually derived from "cassia", a tree related to "true cinnamon".
ANP0o TIL that Europa has an ocean of water underneath a shell of ice that is fifteen miles thick.
GYWyN TIL a Hungarian chemist during WWII hid his Nobel Prize by dissolving it in acid and leaving it on a shelf due to the Nazi ban on its citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize. After the war, he reconstituted the gold from the acid, returned it to Sweden, and got the medal cast again.
wLxd7 TIL of the Queenstown oval in Tasmania. The gravel surface has been in use since 1895 and one long time player claims the best way to deal with it is to "Land on someone"