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TIL less than 5% of new Amish business fail in the first five years. The National average stands at about 65% over the same time period.

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kOpk1 TIL that the full version of the song 'Yankee Doodle' is incredibly long, containing 16 verses and also repeating the chorus 16 times.
vZL TIL most bamboo species only flower once every several decades; and, when these species flower, every plant in the world flowers at the same time, regardless of location, climate, or other environmental factors, for reasons scientists have yet to discern.
gM9JX TIL Socrates thought that the invention of writing would negatively affect peoples' memory, since people could just write things down instead of having to remember them.
69WNY TIL that the civilization of Easter Island was not destroyed because the people cut the trees down. In fact, it was the europeans and their South American descendants who caused the collapse the population in this island through disease, slavery and kidnapping the few remaining locals it had.
9xBM TIL when you look at a clock, and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory, and your perception of time stretches slightly backward. This effect is called chronostasis.