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TIL that there is a physiological justification for splashing cold water on your face to calm down: The Mammalian Diving Reflex

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ag5Z TIL there was a German priest who invented his own language after God told him to in a dream. Currently, there are 20 fluent in it.
mPBY TIL Disney-Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter was FIRED by Disney in the early-1980s after pitching a computer-animated film about forgotten appliances at a summer cabin waiting for their owner to return. He was so ashamed that he didn’t admit what happened to even his wife for over 20 years
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grXyL TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.
yK4X TIL Though Jews make up a mere 0.25 percent of the world’s population they account, for 27 percent of all American Nobel Prize winners, 25 percent of all ACM Turing Award winners for computer science, and 50 percent of the globe’s chess champions.