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TIL a 2004 study demonstrated raising the temperature in an office from 68°F (20°C) to 77°F (25°C) dropped typing errors by 44% and boosted typing output by 150%

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L4or TIL the Texas capitol once held a poll to rename their waste disposal department. The winning entry was ‘The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts.’
0wblp TIL K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies
Lwpp TIL 80% of Canadian women use contraception, only 64% of American women do.
R7GNl TIL About the story behind the movie, Candyman. In 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy, an inhabitant of the Projects, was shot 4 times after an unnamed assailant removed, and climbed through her medicine cabinet and left, and escaped, back through it. He/She was never apprehended.
7r69X TIL that scientists have had to change the names of certain genes because of Microsoft Excel. Genes such as SEPT1 are auto-formatted to the date Sept. 1st in spreadsheets containing thousands of genetic abbreviations