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TIL half of your brain stands guard when you sleep in a new place for the first time.

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1Z9X TIL that because Hulk Hogan didn’t return the call from the endorsers to be the face of a new grill, they called the second person on the list, George Foreman, to be the face of what turned out to be a multi million dollar product.
Z0xv TIL to protest the outrageous overcharging of Australian fans, NIN’s Trent Reznor stated about his own music “Steal it. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’.”
JYAKk TIL that in 1942 the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was banned by BBC during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.
yMZe TIL A professor is able to predict with 91% accuracy if a married couple will stay together based on the number of positive comments they make to negative ones. Couples with a 5:1 ratio tend to stay together.
GYm7Q TIL that in 1963, Malcolm X gave a powerful speech on the state of institutional racism in America