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TIL The discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced in Comic Sans font, causing outrage on Twitter - but also highlighting that the benefits of Comic Sans, which has been clinically proven to make reading easier and is used in treating dyslexia.

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L1Yr TIL: In 1995, St. Jude’s Hospital received an anonymous letter with a $1 million winning McDonald’s Monopoly game piece. Although it was against the rules to transfer prizes, McDonald’s honored it even after learning that the piece was sent by an individual involved in an embezzlement scheme.
PKyE TIL that Ben Affleck was as disappointed by Daredevil as the rest of us, calling it the only movie he actually regrets.
loM4B TIL Children get more satisfaction from pets than from brothers and sisters. Children with dogs had lower levels of conflict and greater satisfaction. Research from University of Cambridge.
5YWwP TIL the British biscuit is an American cookie, an American cookie is a British cookie, and an American biscuit is a British scone.
GY07J TIL that there's actually a phenomenon for pronouncing a word repeatedly until it loses its meaning: semantic satiation