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TIL that less than 1% of redditors ever vote, comment or submit

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WoE8 TIL: Scientists May Have Evidence We Are In A Matrix-Like Simulation.
lve1 TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln.
D1GNj TIL that billions of cockroaches are being farmed in China to solve urban waste, provide medicinal treatment, develop beauty products, and feed livestock. One particular company has raised over six billion and prevents their escape by surrounding them in a moat filled with fish.
4Xgra TIL that Walt Disney's original idea for EPCOT was an entire city of people living in Disney World. Everyone was required to work, and since EPCOT would own their land or home, nobody would have any municipal voting rights.
JYyw1 TIL we can see the shadows of the capillaries in our eyes. Our brains just ignore them because they offer no useful information to us (kind of like how you don't see your nose unless you focus on it.) This is called the Troxler Effect. I linked a procedure you can follow to see the shadows yourself.