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TIL,"the Stopped Clock Illusion". Rapidly move your eyes away from a clock and back to it, and you will notice the second hand taking more time to move than expected. The brain filters the blurry images you see in-between while moving your eyes and replaces it with the image of first thing you see.

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wLGE6 TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".
l7aMB TIL Niccolò Michelozzi, head of the florentine chancellery in 1512 imposed a policy of "rigorous record keeping" on his staffers. He would occasionaly send them official mail from the office, saying "we have nothing to write to you about today, but we write you anyway, just for good practice"
YpJld TIL that Cookie Monster has a British cousin named Biscuit Monster
4kgko TIL Around 5,300 kids were killed at school due to the 2008 earthquake in China
wLblJ TIL Celine Dion recorded 'My Heart Will Go On' in one single take and originally hated the song