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TIL that the rate at which we process visual information slows down over time, and this is what makes time ‘speed up’ as we grow older.

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VMJRG TIL in 2015 a call center in NY was infested with bedbugs. The workers unwittingly brought them home. The company demanded the workers pay to have their own homes fumigated and prove it before returning to work. They were also sited by OSHA for conducting fumigation during work hours.
QJX0p TIL- On 18th April 1930 the BBC's news announcer reported: "There is no news" and played piano music for the rest of the programme.
QNyNX TIL that Scots is not just a dialect of English, but a proper language with its own spelling. For example, “efter aw I’v duin for ye” is Scots for “after all I’ve done for you.”
pYdp8 TIL Thomas Edison liked to take naps while holding spheres, when he nodded off he'd drop the spheres and be awoken. The naps were meant to drive creativity. A 2021 experiment found the spheres acted as a “hypnagogia catcher” which allowed participants to have more spontaneous thoughts/creativity.
KOY1B TIL While on the run the once drug lord Pablo Escobar burned two million dollars to keep his family warm at an unpowered mountainside hideout.