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TIL our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones

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4X6QN TIL the most difficult word to translate is 'ilunga'. It means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
epRkk TIL that the town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard only experiences sunrises and sunsets on 127 days of the year, from August 23 to October 27 and from February 15 to April 18.
nbbd TIL that the Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of any vertebrate (up to 500 years), and doesn’t even reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old
BrDPb TIL: A women bought one of those robocaller's "Car Extended Auto Warranties" so she could once and for all figure out who they were. Then she proceeded to file a class action lawsuit against the company for violating Do Not Call lists, the case is ongoing, FILED: APRIL 21, 2021 § 2:21-CV-09945.
v1rlj TIL that the gravity at the International Space Station is approximately 90% as strong as on Earth. The reason why things and people float is that they are constantly falling down, the same way people in an elevator would float if it was falling too fast.