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TIL that context terms used in internet searches change the search results, often leading to confirmation bias. For example, if you search “is X good for you?”, the top results will be sources stating X is good for you. And vice versa.

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QAle TIL When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed first time on the Moon, they honored as a Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals…
6E1GX TIL that Nazi Germany conceived of a weapon called the "Sun Gun", which would have been a giant mirror in outer space that used concentrated sunlight to destroy entire cities.
j6rkp TIL reheating rice can cause food poisoning.
grdPX TIL of the Fiat Mio: a futuristic concept car based on the ideas of thousands of people around the world. Even then the car was never produced
WyJA TIL that lichen found in Antarctica were placed in a mars-like environment for 34 days and adapted completely.