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TIL that the “Tetris Effect” occurs when you focus so much on something— such as a video game— that you start to see it in real life and during sleep

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1aRn4 TIL that the Statue of Liberty walks over a broken chain and shackle, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. They represent freedom and the end of servitude and oppression.
mxlOP TIL in 1870, the corrupt leader of NYC’s city Hall, Boss Tweed offered the New York Times the equivalent of $100 million to not publish their expose on his political corruption.
Lk4OQ TIL even after everything The Beatles accomplished and releasing 12 albums, George Harrison was only 26-years-old when the band split in early 1970
j6d1v TIL Fractional freezing is a method to concentrate alcoholic beverages by freezing and removing the water. The problem is that the method concentrates impurities like excess ethanol which causes intense hangovers and a condition known as "apple palsy".
neZG TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but the idea was deemed to be “too upsetting to the audience”.