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TIL Talking to yourself in the third person - a technique known as illeism - can improve your decision making and emotional stability

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vJOR TIL that George clooney wanted to be on an episode of south park, so trey Parker and Matt stone had him be the voice of stan’s dog sparky. He only got to make dog sounds.
dVVj TIL Paris Hilton’s grandfather is so ashamed of her behavior that when he dies his fortune is going to charity
rdgo TIL Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to change the scale to what it is today.
wQLM TIL a music producer successfully pranked Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles to record the song Eternal Flame naked after convincing her that Olivia Newton-John recorded all her songs naked.
NWlE TIL: Scientists found a tomato plant on a volcanic island and were perplexed as to how it got there. Turns out it grew up fertilized in the poop left by a previous researcher.