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TIL: We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec)

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b9Vb0 TIL of composer Frank Churchill, who worked on early Disney films Snow White, Bambi and Dumbo, winning an Oscar for Dumbo. In 1942, just months before the release of Bambi, he shot himself, purportedly "at the piano." He received two posthumous Oscar nominations for his work on the film.
JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
nMYo TIL that Epicurus is a renowned, Ancient Greek philosopher who believed that friends were the greatest source of everlasting pleasure to an individual. He lived on a simple diet of bread & water, focusing on rational pleasures.
WkRD8 TIL birds such as the Albatross and the Frigatebird, known to fly over the open ocean for weeks on end, can sleep while flying
E5X7 TIL Daylight Savings Time causes a 24% increase in heart attacks every day that the clocks move forward, and a 21% decrease in heart attacks every time the clocks move back.