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TIL if you wash yourself within ten minutes of touching poison ivy, you can avoid a reaction

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4k86X TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
e089b TIL that Harry Houdini in disguise would attend magic shows by people who claimed to be "spiritual mediums", knowing their trick, he would finally light a flashlight that left the deception in the open and stand up and cry “I am Houdini! And you are a fraud!"
Oobd6 TIL Sand Cats are a thing and they don't drink water.
BrR9k TIL Chess Grand Master Ossip Bernstein was arrested by the Bolshevik secret police and ordered to be shot. As the firing squad lined up, an officer asked if he was really the famous chess master. The officer made Bernstein play a game for his life against him. Bernstein won easily and was released.
pDMG TIL: In the James Bond film/novel, ‘Casino Royale’, the name Vesper Lynd is a pun on “West Berlin”, signifying divided loyalties.