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TIL that the concept of "phantom vibration syndrome" is when someone believes their phone is vibrating due to a notification, but it actually isn't. Studies suggest that this phenomenon is related to our brain's adaptation to constantly being in touch with technology.

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VMer4 TIL: since the population of London is greater than the maximum number of hairs that can be present on a human's head, the pigeonhole principle requires that there must be at least two people in London who have the same number of hairs on their heads.
7EvM TIL Keanu Reeves was tricked into making a movie because a friend forged his signature and Reeves didn’t want to fight the legal battle
awL4y TIL that Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
yEK8 TIL that “Hello Kitty” has no mouth. The mouthless phenomenon is “so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad.“
aOYM TIL the richest 85 people in the world have more money than the poorest half of the world (thats 3.5 Billion People)