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TIL it’s been scientifically proven that alcohol increases creativity. It reduces the executive function, while boosting imagination and inner consciousness as shown by increased activity in the superior temporal gyrus, an area of the brain directly above the ear.

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EOYP TIL Hugh Hefner holds two Guinness world records: the longest career as an editor-in-chief for the same magazine, 59 years, and for the largest collection of personal scrapbooks, 2,643.
pYRlZ TIL in 1959, Ottawa Int'l Airport was planning to open a new terminal. But during rehearsals for the Opening Ceremony, a US fighter jet flew so fast that it caused a sonic boom, which shattered many windows, tiles, and structural columns. The opening had to be delayed by a year to fix the damage.
6WjJ TIL there was a man in 1987 named Kenneth Parks who was acquitted of murder and attempted murder because he was sleepwalking
0w55j TIL that male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilised eggs in their mouth to think they’ve dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.
bW40 TIL that the reason Ulysses S Grant was considered a “drunk” was because he only weighed 135 pounds and couldn’t handle his alcohol well