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TIL when someone has a similar appearance, and specifically, a similar face, it is a powerful cue for feelings of trustworthiness. It invokes feelings of kinship.

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69Bj8 TIL Vancouver's Stanley Park Hollow Tree Conservation Society voted to save a six-metre-wide dead Hollow Tree stump and paid $200,000 worth of restoration work. The parks board voted to cut down the 700 year old tree, because it was a safety hazard
5DPR TIL that in 1968 Charles Schulz resisted adding a black character to Peanuts because he thought it would be seen as condescending. After adding Franklin, his syndicate tried to force Schulz to remove him. He said, “Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”
vVR TIL that the difference between a “fast” metabolism or a “slow” one is about 200 calories a day (e.g. one poptart)
RPd6 TIL that during one particular Rolling Stones concert, four people were killed but the overall population of the concert did not change since four babies were born during the concert as well.
7rkyr TIL After the death of Princess Diana, radio station XFM banned certain songs that might upset people. Banned songs included Drive by The Cars, Airbag by Radiohead and anything by the Crash Test Dummies.