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P1Vpn TIL at Animal Kingdom in Disney World balloons aren’t allowed so they created a “balloon daycare” where your balloon is stored and they’ll give you a report card about its day and its activities.
ANrj7 TIL That J.K. Simmons played an anti-communist U.S. President Howard T. Ackerman in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Parodying the 2008 Presidential election, he was in ads that had Ackerman as an alternative to the other candidates. He gained 43 votes as a write-in candidate.
9YEAm TIL at the dawn of the dinosaurs 250 million years ago, the day was on 23 hours long.
6Eb9w TIL Psychological Reactance is a term meaning an unpleasant motivational arousal to rules/laws that threaten or eliminate behavioral freedoms, and it leads the affected people to resist the social influence of others
0wdEy TIL China are genuinely implementing a Black Mirror style 'Citizen Score' system where you will be ranked against your peers to determine if you are a good citizen or not. Your score will also be affected by the types of people you socialize with.