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TIL vibrations of cars make people sleepier
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TIL 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth.
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TIL despite sporting the same name and logo, Mitsubishi Pencil Co. (of Uni/Uni-ball fame) has never been a part of Mitsubishi Group.
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TIL that Mexico banned any visual depiction of Elvis including television or movies for 11 years, by law, because of 2 riots at the Mexican premiers of 'King Creole' and 'GI Blues'. A stunt double had to be used to film exterior scenes shot in Mexico for 'Fun in Acapulco'.
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TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.
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TIL Venus is further from the sun than Mercury but it is the hottest planet in the solar system. The high temperature is due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by its dense atmosphere, which is primarily composed of carbon dioxide.