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TIL plumbers call the day after Thanksgiving "Brown Friday", their busiest day of the year,

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loEy7 TIL in 1955, Judy Garland was the favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actress for A Star is Born. She could not attend the ceremony due to having just had her third child, so cameras were set up in her room so she could express her thanks when she won. In an upset, Grace Kelly won the award.
d8dL9 TIL studies have found coffee drinkers (those who drink 3-5 cups per day) have a more “efficient” brain than those who don't drink coffee. MRI scans found coffee drinkers have quicker connectivity in the cerebellum, the right precuneus, and the right insular.
wyY8 TIL that the last official declaration of jihad by a caliph was on November 11, 1914, when the Ottoman Empire entered World War 1.
mxngo TIL Mike Tyson's Training Regiment included waking up at 4am, jogging 5-miles. Then he would do 2000 sit-ups, 500 pushups, 500 dips, 500 shrugs and about 30 minutes of neck bridges daily. He repeated this 6 days a week.
91lM TIL there is a Syrian city where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still widely spoken