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TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies

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VBVY4 TIL about Boundary Extension, which is " a widely accepted psychological phenomenon in which observers will recall an image as containing visual information beyond the boundaries of the originally studied image".
96A7 TIL that a girl has eaten almost nothing but ramen noodles since she was 5 years old. She is now 18 and has the equivalent health of an 80 year old.
QN86a TIL since 2020 shootings have become the top cause of death for children in the US, overtaking auto accidents
neEBY TIL that, in 2009, a wastewater treatment plant in Baltimore suffered an Orb Weaver Spider infestation of unprecedented magnitude. The population was estimated to be over 100 MILLION spiders in over 140,000 cubic feet of web. If this happened in your home you'd have 17 million spiders inside.
DQYEY TIL that there are no known creature on earth with an odd number of legs used for locomotion except kangaroo.