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TIL that the Danish word for “Cruise Control” is “Fartpilot.”

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xVMQ0 TIL that writing a giant SOS on a beach has the added advantage of being an ambigram: SOS can be read right side up or upside down
x6jro TIL Shops often play music with a slower tempo to encourage customers to move more slowly through the store, thus spending more time looking at products and increasing the likelihood of making a purchase.
e0KEb TIL that after his infant son was seriously injured in an accident, the author Roald Dahl helped to invent a medical device, the Dahl-Wade-Till shunt. The device has since been used to help over 3000 children worldwide.
Q9wL TIL Bender’s apartment number 00100100 is a binary representation of the ASCII character “$”.
X050k TIL A 2014 linguistics study on filler words found that 1) women use “um” ~22% more than men, 2) men say “uh” 250% more than women, & 3) men use filler words ~38% more than women