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TIL Cold showers are more beneficial than hot showers.

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ne0wb TIL Chris Columbus, director of the first and second Harry Potter films, planned for his adaptation of the fourth book to have 4-5 hrs of footage split into 2 films - one released Thanksgiving, the other on Christmas
woonP TIL about the 1994 Black Hawk friendly-fire incident, in which 2 USAF F-15s shot down 2 US Army Black Hawk helicopters, killing all 26 on-board.
YaMP TIL Google doesn’t use lawnmowers to cut its grass. Google rents 200 goats to chow down on their grass for roughly a week.
a8WGM TIL that bats use echolocation to find food in the dark. They make high-pitched sounds that bounce off objects, helping them figure out where stuff is. It's like their own built-in radar!
7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.