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TIL Researchers in Japan developed a quick and reliable method to put your crying baby back to sleep

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OoXe6 TIL The robot in Rocky IV was originally built to help kids with autism and its success with Stallone’s own autistic son is how it ended up in the movie
L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.
koK5 TIL that for some products, up to 30% of on-line reviews are fake.
Laa9 TIL: Brian Blessed, finding the original voice actor Tony Goldwyn’s attempts rather lacking, convinced Disney to let him do the Tarzan Yell instead.
b9vg9 TIL That when Christopher Reeve (the man who played Superman) was about to receive the surgery to reattach his skull to his spine after falling off a horse, Robin Williams cheered him up by dressing as his character from Nine Months and proclaiming that Reeve will be getting a rectal exam.