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TIL that ‘the anchoring effect’ is the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the “anchor”) when making decisions

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mPRx TIL André the Giant was so large by the age of 12 that he could not fit on the school bus, and so was driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
QeV9 TIL that the first human in history whose name we know is an Iraqi (Sumerian) accountant named Kushim
erJL TIL 53% of Indian children are sexually abused
MP5m TIL that a snail spent years glued to a card in the British museum before they realized it was alive
pmm4 TIL the “North Star” is actually a handful of stars orbiting each other