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TIL most people who have cars with built in GPS use their phones for directions.

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NXEQ8 TIL that because Paris is so romanticised in eastern cultures, travellers to the city - especially from Japan and China - can end up experiencing an intense culture shock that can cause anything between vomiting to actual hallucinations. The effect has its own name - Paris Syndrome
awvdN TIL about a man named Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker, who has figured out a way for a single person to manipulate monoliths using only wooden levers, pebbles, and counterweights, and who may have solved the mystery of Stonehenge.
nPQ9 TIL the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands (now part of New Zealand) strapped their dead to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.
WWgA TIL that the word Hello only began being used as a greeting when the telephone was invented, credited as a suggestion by Thomas Edison to be used when answering the phone. Alexander Graham Bell, his competitor, preferred Ahoy.
E1eaX TIL Ric O'Barry transitioned from training dolphins for the TV show 'Flipper' to instead advocating against industries that keep dolphins in captivity, after one of the Flipper dolphins died in his arms.