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TIL Spending too much time doing homework can lead to chronic depression.

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b6bE TIL Stanley Kubrick’s decision to only use classical music in what would become the iconic soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was made last minute in post-production. Alex North, who’d written an entire score for the film, didn’t find out his music had been discarded until the premiere.
e019b TIL an outlaw isn't just someone who breaks the law, but is a punishment given to someone where the law no longer protects you. If someone wants to rob, beat, or kill you, they absolutely can with no repercussions from the law as an outlaw is now someone "outside of the law."
JYNrm TIL: A typical kitchen sponge has about the same bacterial density per cm as an average human stool.
6EBwY TIL that scientists in Botswana have started painting eyes on cow's rumps to deter lions from attacking them. Protecting the livestock from lions also protects the lions, as local farmers no longer have any reason to shoot or poison them.
VMmwG TIL that astronaut Chris Hadfield was temporarily blinded in 2001 during a spacewalk. He was blinded by a drop of a mixture of oil and soap solution that got in his eye. The solution is used to keep the visors on an astronaut's helmet fog-free.