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TIL : These 100 Illustrated Cognitive Biases Have Changed How I Think

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BBrL TIL that Imgur serves more images in 10 minutes than there are in the entire Library of Congress.
ANDEg TIL that people can actually die of a broken heart and the medical term is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken-heart syndrome)
Gwv4 TIL that there is an actual name for the shape of Pringles - a Hyperbolic Paraboloid
k5ZW TIL that A man survived for 40 years without sleeping.
kONM5 TIL that you are about 5 times more likely to make money while gambling on roulette at Caesar's Palace (2.9%) than you are working a MLM (0.4%)