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TIL: Fabio Lanzoni has played himself more times than a fictional character.

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G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.
d8kDr TIL that there is an unusual instrument called the celeste/celesta which looks like a piano, but has metal plates like a xylophone, instead of strings, inside. This instrument is what gives the Nutcracker's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, and the Harry Potter theme, their distinct sound.
vNjL TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term for the time in August when newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service. Patients admitted as an emergency during “killing season” are six per cent more likely to die.
WLKB TIL that sign language users have “accents”, and can often tell the region another user comes from through them, just like spoken language.
x6BRk TIL that Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. So far, the only diseases completely eradicated by humankind are smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980, and rinderpest, declared eradicated in 2011.