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TIL people who are always running late tend to end up living a longer and healthier life according to Harvard researchers.

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dDmYr TIL Whales are colorblind and see the world only in black and white
p8YBb TIL the Supreme Court ruling of "Oliphant v Suquamish" states that non-Native Americans who commit crimes on tribal land cannot be arrested by NatAme law enforcement. Who gets to make the arrest depends on the ethnicity of the criminal or the victim. This resulted in many crimes going unpunished.
5YrEr TIL that in Fahrenheit 451 the government didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
N7BaP TIL renewable energy provided almost 100% of electricity production in Iceland, with about 73% coming from hydropower and 27% from geothermal power.
ZpDlY TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.