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TIL- The first movie ever watched on the ISS was ‘The Sixth Sense’ and no one really liked it much.

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78PJO TIL (yesterday actually) about "Phantom Vibration Syndrome", a sensation that makes you feel like your phone is vibrating when it is not.
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”
vPE9j TIL The notion that lobster was such a low-quality food that prisoners in New England rioted if it was over-served and indentured servants had contracts stating they could only have lobster three times a week is actually a myth
VMoYG TIL that a lawyer had his client sit in the stands and had a similar looking friend to sit where the defendant usually sits, so that when pointed out the witness would pick the wrong person getting his client off free
NXy4b TIL that when testing a topical patch version of a blood pressure medication, it was found that people grew hair under the patch. The drug was then rebranded as Rogaine. The mechanism by which it promotes hair growth is still not fully understood.