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TIL The average human spends 1.5 years on the toilet.
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TIL that in 2017 scientists at U of Bonn found that the same wine tastes better when labelled with a higher price tag, a phenomenon known as the “marketing placebo effect.” Participants were given two samples, one €6 and one €18. Most rated the latter higher though they were from the same bottle.
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TIL that hippo sweat contains a chemical that has an SPF factor to prevent them from getting sunburned.
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TIL that In 2010, a Colorado money manager maimed a cyclist in a hit-and-run. He escaped felony charges by arguing that the smell of his new Mercedes-Benz had aggravated his sleep apnea, which briefly knocked him out.
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TIL Elephants "may show lateral preference when grasping with their trunks: some prefer to twist them to the left, others to the right." Essentially, they can be left or right "trunked"!
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TIL China does not have it’s own army. The ‘Chinese army’ is actually the military arm of the Communist Party.