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TIL We touch our face so much because we are unconsciously sniffing our hands to gain information about the people and environment around us.

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mmNR TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “…Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
wLE4J TIL that the largest, oldest Douglas Fir trees are real life "mother trees" from the movie Avatar - they send nutrients via soil fungi to the smaller trees around them, and they favor the seedlings that are their own offspring
rRJe TIL Cher has climbed Mount Everest not once, but twice
rRANo TIL that employers in 31 of 50 United States aren't required to allow their employees to take breaks.
9wQm6 TIL When Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, she had to make her way to the stage from a segregated table at the back of the room.