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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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xVOOD TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.
5Gek TIL that Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, a game released in 1996, had a map size of 161,600 km². That makes almost the size of Florida which has an area of 170,300 km².
JYgGk TIL that when Ready Player One was released, there was an easter egg in the book that lead readers to three challenges, including playing a new Richard Garriott game and setting a world record on a game for the Atari 2600. The winner of the challenges was awarded a vintage DeLorean.
Rrp7 TIL when Japanese women laugh they often cover their mouths with their hand. This comes from an old Buddhist notion that showing bone is unclean.
0nb5 TIL a 12 year old boy who saw his own father murdered by a family friend, avenged the death of his father by killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack he had planned for 12 years. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years of wait.