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TIL: One in five Irish children hear voices - startling findings show “auditory hallucinations” common among Irish children

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rNRBM TIL when one adventurer drove a Jeep Wrangler to the world record altitude of 6,646 m, he left a sign saying "Jeep Parking Only: All others don't make it up here anyway.". The next record breakers, who had a Suzuki Samurai and climbed up to 6,688 m on the same volcano, removed that sign.
x6Nj7 TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)
PoAZ TIL In the original script of Time Bandits, King Agamemnon was introduced as: “The warrior took off his helmet, revealing someone that looks exactly like Sean Connery, or an actor of equal but cheaper stature.”. Sean Connery ended up doing the film.
vn1j TIL: Stella Liebeck, defendant in the 90’s McDonald’s Hot Coffee suit, suffered horrific third degree pelvic burns and spent eight days in the hospital for burn grafts. I grew up thinking this was a frivolous case for a victim that suffered no injury at all.