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TIL that British Lawyers and Judges still regularly wear wigs in court.

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VB7dp TIL the $327.6 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a unit conversion error. NASA's team used metric units, while Lockheed Martin used Imperial units for calculations, causing the spacecraft to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up.
dDvWZ TIL that monkeys used mind control to move a virtual arm and experience touch
mMmo TIL that one theory on why we are ticklish is that it serves as a mechanism for developing combat skills. Most often practiced from parent to child, tickling activates vulnerable areas on the body that develop a defensive reaction while producing laughter that encourages the ‘attacker’ to continue.
XEMEX TIL when asked who the most famous person in the world is, British children under 10 placed the Queen third, God second, and Simon Cowell number one.
l7KpA TIL most phones include FM radio hardware, but carriers and manufacturers have it disabled in software