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TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!

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9BjD TIL in 2014, a Stanford study found that walking boosts creative inspiration. The study examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased on average 60% when walking – regardless of how they walked (eg, outside or on a treadmill).
0ORM TIL famous writer Harlan Ellison wrote an episode of The Flying Nun simply so he could try to have sex with Sally Field.
nW65W TIL that banks used to print people’s social security numbers on their checks.
RGx9 TIL Two US Soldiers were killed by North Korea, while trying to trim down a tree that obscured their view. 3 days later, a task force of 813 troops entered Korea and chopped it down.
QJGRd TIL If you were condemned to death in a Nazi medical experiment but later resurrected in another Nazi medical experiment you would be "pardoned to concentration camp for life"