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TIL that in China, real-estate developers hire white people to boost businesses because they make “the place feel classier.”

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1a8kr TIL a power plant in Lanai, Hawaii generates electric via diesel trains, still on the tracks.
yJXw TIL that some depression may be caused by a parasite in the brain.
YpwYv TIL that approximately 25% of the United States' nuclear arsenal is protected by dolphins, and has been so since 2010
RYk4 TIL that a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the bombing of Hiroshima. He then returned to his home city of Nagasaki the next day which would suffer the same fate. He is the only reported “double survivor” of both Little Boy and Fat Man.
9MEG TIL that in a UC Berkeley study, where a game of Monopoly was rigged so that one player started with twice the money, the advantaged player tended to contribute their inevitable victory to the decisions they made in the game rather than their initial advantage.