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TIL of "Banner blindness". It is when you subconsciously ignore ads and anything that resembles ads.

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R7AXl TIL of Queen Constance of Italy, who in 1194 gave birth to her heir (the future Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II) at the age of 40. She supposedly gave birth publicly to refute rumors about her maternity
J1lLl TIL in 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a single man pitch a tent (a 24-man army tent) after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event grew so large it even attracted corporate sponsers. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to accomplish the task.
4kk15 TIL there is a Peppa Pig episode that is banned in Australia for saying 'spiders can't hurt you'
NXZJe TIL In the panic preceding Halley's comet, some 'savvy business men' sold things like anti-comet pills, anti-comet gas masks, and anti-comet umbrellas to people.
vVnr TIL an 11 year old boy led the Hawaiian scholar Hiram Bingham to “discover” Machu Picchu about 100 years ago.