TIL that baby and children’s brains look/seem to function very similarly to an adult brain on psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, etc)
TIL that Aaron Sorkin once sent himself to the ER while acting out a scene he'd written | While writing a Newsroom episode, he was acting out a scene where a character lunges at someone, and he smashed into his bathroom mirror, breaking his nose and making a huge bloody mess.
TIL that the human brain has a special region within its visual processing system which is uniquely fearful of only snakes.
TIL that Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm blew off a part of his fence. After his new neighbors fixed it for him, no questions asked, it became the basis for King Of The Hill - "about neighbors who... ultimately, do the right thing and do right by people and are basically good people."
TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross raised almost half a billion dollars “to help Haitians rebuild” but they can't say where the money went