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TIL People have a cognitive bias where they over-estimate how noticeable their embarrassing behaviour is to others.

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gMWGy TIL that spills in an ice hotel are cleaned with an ice pick and then packed with snow.
gr1L TIL that removing the top and bottom sheets of a paper ream can prevent copy machine paper jams.
r6Re TIL that the owner of In-N-Out, Lynsi Synder, is the only surviving descendant of the founders of In N Out (her grandparents) and at age 31, she is worth $1.1 billion dollars
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