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TIL that the tendency people have to overestimate how much others are noticing their appearance or actions is a social phenomenon known as the "spotlight effect".

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logbr TIL that in the international standard for paper size (used everywhere except the USA and some Latin American countries), the aspect ratio is always √2:1, so that when cut in half, the halves also have the same aspect ratio. In the "A" series (including A4), A0 is 1 m², A1 is 0.5 m², and so on
l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy
av4b TIL until 1998, British politicians had to wear a top hat if making a point of order in the house of commons
69MNZ TIL that the beastie boys dismantled their own golf record, only to find it didn’t contain their own music.
VDM8 TIL two MIT grads are designing a nuclear power plant that can use nuclear waste as a source of fuel, produce 75 times more energy per ton of fuel, and utilize 96% of supplied fuel, vs only 4% used with traditional designs. It will also be virtually accident proof and cheap to build.