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^They also go down from trees to go to pee.

The Decoy Effect is a marketing tactic that gets you to change your preferences for one of two items by adding a third, undesirable option. For example: people are more likely to choose an elegant pen over $6 in cash if there is a third option in the form of a less elegant pen.

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There is much study on whether The Mandela Effect is proof of parallel dimensions or parallel realities.

Around 50 to 100 hairs fall out of your scalp every day.

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The Pentagon has SIX zip codes!!

Up to 50% of the water in your drinking glass was created over 4.5 billion years ago- which means about half of Earth’s water is older than our entire solar system, including the sun.

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^ Blimey.

All modern Europeans can trace their maternal lineage to one of the ‘Seven Daughters of Eve,’ a group of prehistoric 'clan mothers’ who lived at different times between 10,000 and 45,000 years ago.

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Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Russian Jewish father and a Catholic mother.

Uzbek tennis player Denis Istomin is also of Russian heritage.

What is this strange fascination with Russian guys named Denis?

The sun sounds like obnoxious, deafening church bells. Sound doesn’t travel in the vacuum of space, but if it did, Earth would be constantly bombarded with a noise that’s 5 decibels louder than a train horn blaring right in front of you.

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^So does the sunlight reflected off the moon sound like anything?

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)



"Inflation is taxation without legislation."

Milton Friedman


Isn't it interesting, that both of these men are therefore implying that inflation is deliberately created and not an emergent property of a free market?

Adobe doesn’t want you to use ‘Photoshop’ as a verb. According to the permissions section of their website, instead of saying 'The image was photoshopped,’ they prefer, 'The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.’

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Sharks and crocodiles have barely changed at all for millions of years.