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TIL Coffee improves short term memory, creativity and alertness.

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RlDw TIL that although cannabis is illegal in Australia there’s a town in New South Wales revolving almost only around weed selling and weed tourism where cannabis is both sold and grown openly.
epkN4 TIL In the film "Dirty dancing", Patrick Swayze found Jennifer Grey very "unprofessional" and in a scene Jennifer Grey kept getting ticklish when when they had to film a scene where she raises her arm and he had to stroke her side. They did that take 20 times and she burst into laughter every time.
wDDE TIL For ‘Wayne’s World’ Mike Myers demanded to use the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody’ in the car scene instead of a Guns n’ Roses song, even threatening to quit the production if they didn’t use it.
4xNN TIL under secrecy, that the first jet powered aircraft flown in the US was piloted by Jack Woolams. Already confused by seeing a plane flying with no propeller, other pilots who spotted Woolams would then see him in the cockpit wearing a gorilla mask, a bowler hat, and smoking a cigar.
ANPpB TIL Indian space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty is the only space entrepreneur in the world to have cofounded companies on three different continents in Asia, Europe and North America.