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TIL that Left-brain vs. Right-brain dominance is a myth. Lateralization is unique in every individual and researchers can not find any evidence that one side of the brain or another works by itself for functions of our personalities.

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8egXL TIL all the instruments on Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You are either programmed or from a synthesizer. Carey’s co-writer on the song, Walter Afanasieff originally had a live band do the instrumental but was unsatisfied with the result and redid it by himself.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.
D14Dp TIL an octopus named Otto caused an aquarium power outage by climbing to the edge of his tank and shooting a jet of water at a bright light that was annoying him. He's also been seen juggling hermit crabs, throwing rocks at the glass and re-arranging his tank surroundings.
e086b TIL that in the 1938 World Cup, Brazil were so sure of winning the semi-final against Italy that they requisitioned the only plane to Paris on the day after the match. After losing to Italy, they refused to sell them the tickets, and the Italian team had to travel from Marseilles to Paris by train
w1p6 TIL film Critic Roger Ebert was quoted saying, “I would rather attend a dusk-to-dawn Chris Farley film festival than sit through any 5 minutes of (Pauly Shore in) Jury Duty.”