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TIL that introverts produce more saliva than extroverts
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LQWP9
TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.
kOn04
TIL in 2005, Dr. Phil offered to help find missing American teenager Natalee Holloway who went missing in Aruba. He released an undercover interview with one of the suspects in which he confessed participating in her murder. The video was proven to be heavily edited and completely misleading.
rRAly
TIL The Bond Movie trope of James Bond scuba diving somewhere, surfacing, then removing the wetsuit to reveal an unblemished full tuxedo, was inspired by a WW2 Dutch Spy who used the technique to sneak into Nazi-controlled Netherlands.
P1GE
TIL in the 50s physicians performed accurate pregnancy tests by injecting urine from the supposedly pregnant women into a frog. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hrs the test was positive.
JYdnj
TIL The Fisher Pen Co. patented a sealed, pressurised ink cartridge for the anti-gravity pen in 1966. The "thixotropic” ink is close to a solid before being stirred & as it's stirred by the ball going through the point, it becomes very thin which allows it to flow in the gravity-free vacuum of space