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TIL about turkey tails and their connection to obesity in the Pacific Islands.

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8aG1L TIL the fallacy fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
OLmY TIL that in 2006, it took Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, 16 hours to recite the first 100,000 digits of pi from memory only. To prove that the exercice was legitimate, everything was filmed, even his trips to the toilet. Despite this, he has yet to receive a Guinness World Record.
ANJed TIL that Jan Smithers (Bailey from WKRP in Cincinnati) was Josh Brolin's stepmom for several years before Barbra Streisand
R7mnw TIL Wayne Brady (of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? fame) appeared in a segment on Sesame Street to sing a song about “between”
D1vJv TIL couples can become external regulators for one another, essentially functioning as a mutual bio-feedback system. Their pupils dilate in synchrony, they echo one another's speech patterns, movements, and even cardiac and EEG rhythms.