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TIL “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Some of popular Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

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PVOE TIL that in the classic 1938 Errol Flynn film “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” the producers wanted a realistic ‘look’ when people were killed by arrows. Instead of SFX or editing tricks, they just hired an expert archer to shoot extras wearing padding. Extras were paid $150 each time they were shot.
LQQX0 TIL Goldfish can recognise classical music. A study was done in which researchers played Bach and Stravinsky. The fish were first trained to bite a bead when they heard both, then only one and not the other, and finally just different clips of one. One fish preferred Bach and avoided Stravinsky.
xVryB TIL of super recogniser's. They can remember 80% of the faces they have seen, and have been known to outperform computers. Some are employed by the British intelligence/police. Two of them was used to identify the suspects in the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 just by reviewing CCTV
jYAM TIL there is a 3,200 km long sea without a coastline in the middle of the ocean, and it is warmer and clearer than the surrounding ocean water
XQ9E TIL a man was arrested and convicted of being a homosexual after witnesses caught him drinking Baileys Irish Cream.