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TIL Bill Murray accepted his role in Ghostbusters only to finance a film which he had co-written. GB was the highest-grossing film of 1984, but Murray was so upset for the failure of the other film that he took 4 years off from acting to study philosophy and history at the Sorbonne, Paris.

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R7vP8 TIL: In 2011, new students at the Wabash College in Indiana were required to play the video game Portal as part of a course on what it means to be human. The course discussed how Portal's villain presents different versions of themselves, showing a public face, while hiding a different private face.
oXyL TIL a study found that narrow nostrils evolved in people from cold climates their noses had to warm the air before it hit their lungs.
owD8 TIL City birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts in order to ward of parasites, as burnt nicotine works as an insecticide to ward off mites, lice and fleas.
LkGbZ TIL a 1966 World Cup match was moved from Wembley because the stadium owner refused to cancel regular greyhound racing held on the same day
vPX4L TIL that French schools used to assign 'Le Symbole' to kids caught speaking minority languages(i.e. Breton, Occitan, Basque, etc). The only way to rid oneself of the symbol is to snitch on a fellow student. At the end of the day, the student with the symbol will receive some form of punishment