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TIL 66% of Cleveland residents are functionally illiterate

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VVZB TIL sea shells sound ‘like the ocean’ because they act as resonators - you are actually hearing “the ambient noise that’s being produced all around and inside you, which you normally don’t hear or pay attention to because it’s too quiet.”
6NaY Til There are over 750 episodes of “Pokémon.” That’s about 50 a year for 16 years straight.
OGJb1 TIL free range chickens sleep in trees
VMAnB TIL that the philosopher William James experienced great depression due to the notion that free will is an illusion. He brought himself out of it by realizing, since nobody seemed able to prove whether it was real or not, that he could simply choose to believe it was.
OoeVY TIL Vesta Stoudt, the mother of two Navy Sailors wrote a letter to President Roosevelt explaing the way ammunition was packed often didn’t work. She suggested a rippable cloth based tape, leading to the invention of duct tape.