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TIL that Austrian police once locked a suspect in a basement interrogation room and forgot him there, accidentally making him the reigning world record holder for "longest survival without either food or water" (18 days).

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16K4 TIL In a motor accident, where a speeding car hits a slower moving vehicle coming from the side, the speeding car drivers often swear that they just didn’t see the vehicle coming from the left or right. Well, they aren’t lying.This phenomenon is known as “Motion Induced Blindness”.
GYp4G TIL that Edgar Allan Poe invented the first fictional detective and directly influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who made his first appearance 45 years after Poe's death.
gyBW TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
0w9J5 TIL that Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon, loved insect collecting as a child. As more and more land was paved over to make room for Japan's cities, Tajiri became inspired to create the Pokémon video games so that other children could experience the joy of catching bugs just as he had.
9YZgr TIL that Homework was considered hugely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900s, when physicians crusaded against it, in 1901, California even banned homework for anyone under the age of 15