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TIL that popcorn became the default movie goer snack during the great depression when vendors saw an opportunity to sell a cheap snack.

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Ajmo TIL of Tan, a patient in a French hospital who was cognizant and alert, but had paralysis in his right arm. He could only say the word, “tan”. When the man eventually died, Paul Broca examined his brain finding a lesion in the frontal lobe, a spot we now call Broca’s Area.
AN9rd TIL that the reason you get chills from a fever isn't because you're physically cold. It's the brain setting your body temp higher to fight the infection and tricking your body into thinking the temperature is wrong so the chills can help increase heat.
yQlRw TIL In 1891, Tesla made a risky Demonstration to discredit Edison company's claims on Safety of AC.During the Demo, For a moment, 250,000 volts raced across the surface of his body , causing him to be surrounded by what one newspaper called “the Effulgent Glory of Myriad Tongues of Electric Flame.”
D0WD TIL Kenny G holds the record for longest note played on a sax with and E-Flat at 45 minutes 47 seconds
oAlr TIL the longest coma to be woken up from lasted 19 years.