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TIL when you mouse over “I’m feeling lucky” it now changes and brings up other “I’m feeling…”

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GJyN TIL that when people dont like the way they look in a picture taken by someone else, it’s mostly because our “preffered” self is the one we see in a mirror, therefore a reversed image of what we look like in pictures. (Mere-Exposure Effect)
e0Xjg TIL During a 1953 K2 expedition, Pete Schoening prevented 5 others climbers from falling en masse to their deaths by using himself and an ice axe as an anchor. The incident is now known simply as "The Belay."
B9PD TIL In 1945, after Japan had conceded defeat in World War II, Sony founder Masaru Ibuka invented a product to try and serve the millions of homes who had electricity but lacked the appliances to use it. The result was an electric rice cooker.
yVYOX TIL Bill Cosby, Gene Hackman, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand were some of the names on Nixon's "Enemies List"
nmN9 TIL eating “fat-free” foods can actually cause a greater gain in weight than eating regular high fat foods