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TIL that certain patterns and correlations in eye-tracking data may reveal the user’s sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health.

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J1Jvm TIL Barbara Bagley sued herself for the wrongful death of her husband. The district court dismissed the complaint, concluded that a person cannot simultaneously act as plaintiff and defendant in a wrongful death or survival action suit.
9YWAB TIL of a tree that grows 40 different fruits
Brpgb TIL Humans are the only primates with white in their eyes, which makes it easier to follow another human's gaze
loAYA TIL about singer and pioneer sound recording artist George W. Johnson, born in 1846, who sold more than 25.000 wax cylinders. Since every recording was a "master" back then, he would record the same song over and over with several recording devices pointed at him, sometimes fifty or more times a day
a87NA TIL in 1939, Walt Disney won an Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. He was presented his Oscar, plus seven mini-Oscar statues by Shirley Temple.