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TIL the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was so powerful that it increased Earth's rotation speed and shortened the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds

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D1MXr TIL that Betty Crocker was never a real person. She was created for a Gold Medal Flour ad in 1921. Shortly after the company decided to use the character to answer all the baking and cooking questions received by mail, as a woman was a more trusted source of baking information than an all male staff
l7MQ5 TIL Skyrim NPCs never say "must have been the wind", it's a mandela effect, the phrase is from Oblivion, but everyone uses it as a skyrim reference
R5Md8 TIL the pilots attempts to save Alaska Airlines Flight 261 on 31 January 2000 served as an inspiration for the fictionalized crash landing in the 2012 movie Flight. Flight 261 experienced a catastrophic loss of pitch control and crashed into the Pacific ocean, killing all 88 on board.
xVeG0 TIL Being overweight literally makes you dumber. As body weight increases patients do worse and worse on learning and memory tests. Obesity also literally shrinks the physical size of the brain, damages the areas used for creativity/imagination, and raises the risk of dementia.
kJdY1 TIL that antisemitic violence continued in Poland after WW2, with the Kielce Pogrom taking place on July 4th 1946, and resulting in 42 Jews being killed and 40 wounded