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TIL Oakley makes goggles with a HUD that tells you speed, elevation, jump dynamics, and links to your smartphone

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eL1b TIL that early one morning in 2014 a Starbucks drive-thru customer decided to pay for the next customer’s order, which ignited an 11 hour long pay-it-forward chain that lasted from 7 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. later that evening when customer No. 379 declined to participate.
R7n7l TIL that pessimism is one of the key symptoms of depression, and depressed people are more pessimistic when predicting the future than nondepressed people, even when they are given the exact same information with which to make their predictions.
p8Y9Z TIL that the rate of world population growth is now decreasing.
nWkxb TIL that Pilates is named after a person, Joe Pilates
QJQ46 TIL that tea used to be consumed only as a medicine in England, but when people saw the Portuguese queen drinking tea regularly, it became popular there too.