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TIL that over 56% of the world’s coastline is in Canada

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Kpk4 TIL Films often use ‘Infrasound’, which is below the range of human hearing, but can induce anxiety and fear for use in scary moments.
4X85g TIL that rubbing your eyes mechanically excites visual receptors in your eye that perceive light, which is why you see spots after
ey0b TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.
dDmGQ TIL: Between 1950 and 2023: Televisions experienced an average inflation rate of -6.54% per year. In other words, televisions costing $1,000 in the year 1950 would cost $7.19 in 2023 for an equivalent purchase.
VBMMk TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment was ended because the principle researcher's girlfriend, a psychologist in her own right, observed the experiment and told him it was wrong and that she didn't like him because of it--not because he determined of his own accord that it was unethical