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TIL that in 1986 there was a midair collision in LA county similar to the one depicted in Season 2 of Breaking Bad, in which the ATC’s name was Walter White

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N7M6b TIL four people have died searching for a treasure hidden by a millionaire in 2009 in the southwestern Rocky Mountains. The estimated $2m treasure has yet to be discovered and its whereabouts are contained within a cryptic poem that the millionaire wrote after he hid his treasure.
Eg5xW TIL the "affect heuristic" is a heuristic, a mental shortcut that allows people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, in which current emotion—fear, pleasure, surprise, etc.—influences decisions.
d8Wyj TIL expensive weddings are directly linked to higher divorce rates.
OnwL TIL that there is a table saw that automatically stops in less 1/1000th of a second when it comes in contact with flesh, and the inventor was crazy enough to test it with his finger.
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.