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TIL “call of the void” is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it.

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dej8 TIL of a place in Norway where three time zones meet but it is illegal to circumambulate it.
Dyov TIL North Dakota didn’t technically qualify for statehood until 2012 when a constitutional error found by a 66-year-old man was corrected.
1JD7 TIL that the first movie shown in a theater setting caused the audience to run away because they thought a train was going to come out of the screen.
YpX5r TIL: Of the NFL players given the Wonderlic Test (a test given before entering the NFL Draft to measure intelligence) at least 19 in the last 37 years have scored below 10, meaning they are illiterate. 10 of those 19 graduated from a major university.
0wWPy TIL the reason we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle is because the Sumerians used a counting system with a base 60, which was then passed on to the Babylonians.