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TIL shopping malls are intentionally designed to be confusing & difficult to navigate as it makes shoppers more susceptible to impulse purchases through a psychological phenomenon known as the Gruen Transfer.

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XN8R TIL that a famous study – showing that people supposedly do better on “trick” questions when printed in a blurry font, which makes them concentrate – was debunked as an artifact of small sample size. (The study was cited in Nobel-Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow.”)
VBKp4 TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.
OoaD4 TIL the worlds largest farm, Mudanjiang City Dairy Farm is located in China and covers an area of 22.5 million acres. This is the same size as Portugal.
e0Z65 Today I learned, submarine sonar is no a “ping” like movies and games, but actually EXTREMELY loud and can kill people and sea life
LjoQ TIL that in Texas ‘The use of force to resist an arrest or search is justified if, before you offers any resistance, the peace officer uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest or search. 9.31 Subsection (b)