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TIL In 2004, Ecuadorians synchronized their watches simultaneously to combat the chronic lateness that was costing their economy $2.5 Billion per year

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PMKe TIL The Google effect is the tendency to forget information that can be easily found using internet search engines such as Google, instead of remembering it.
KO8EE TIL Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States
j6own TIL that pearlfish will sometimes seek shelter in the anus of a sea cucumber. If the entrance is shut, the pearlfish will stick its tail in its mouth, cutting off its oxygen supply and forcing it to open its anus
N7RDJ TIL the name of 1997 film "Gattaca" is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.
8e4aG TIL there is still a WW2 veteran who is a serving in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Anthony Christopher joined the Royal Air Force in 1944, he started serving in parliament in 1998, and celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year.