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TIL of the "Japanese Schindler," Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who went against orders to save 6000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust

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j6pya TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.
0d0MM TIL the baku, a mythical Japanese creature that eats nightmares. In the Meiji period, children would say, "Baku-san, come eat my dream" three times to get rid of bad dreams. But if the baku remained hungry after eating, it might also devour their hopes and desires, leaving them with an empty life.
ANrwa TIL that the McGurk Effect shows how our brains integrate visual and auditory information for speech perception. If the visual information of a speaker’s mouth movements doesn’t match the sound, our brains may perceive a completely different sound.
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