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TIL that our eyes twist when we tilt our heads

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OGQK4 TIL of the metaphor of the "missing stair", where a problematic person in a community is discretely worked around and warned about, rather than openly addressed
VXe8 TIL not having friends has the same health risks as smoking a pack a day.
DQDZP TIL about Frank Hart, a 19th century African American pedestrian (6 day endurance walking events popular at the time). He was a famous and popular athlete, held a world record, and was the first Black athelete on a sports (trading/tobacco) card.
78W1P TIL On Aug. 1, Sprite will ditch the soft drink’s green-colored bottles in favor of clear PET bottles. Green, has contributed to it as one of the most recognizable brands. Sprite states that they try to further bottle-to-bottle recycling and increase the the availability of recycled material-PET.
awr8y TIL for Pingu, all the voices in the original series were done by one man; an Italian clown called Carlo Bonomi. He did the voices without a script and helped developed “Penguinese” – the babbling language in the show. He was influenced by a traditional comedic language called Grammelot.