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TIL Public poll names town's new gritters in UK

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69m6Q TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.
Yply7 TIL that the name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for "desert" and Gobi comes from the Chinese word for "desert". The Sahara Desert and Gobi Deserts are both the "Desert Desert."
E9Bd TIL - President Franklin D Roosevelt received a truckload of Yuengling beer delivered to the Whitehouse the day prohibition was ended.
OoopR TIL: Chernobyl was closed in 2000, Japan has still most of the nuclear reactors in standby.
jNZyp TIL the former columns of the U.S. Capitol building still stand, now in the U.S. Arboretum in NE D.C.