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TIL A phenomenon called "change blindness": An experiment found that nearly half of people failed to notice when the person they were talking to was replaced with someone else after a brief visual distraction.

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g6A9 TIL in 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
dmE8 TIL the average commercial airliner gets hit by lightning a little more than once a year
5VXgQ TIL Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
Wk6Z8 TIL Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital. (1924)
BgZBK TIL The Great Wall of China is often regarded as one of the most impressive architectural feats in human history