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TIL Semantic Satiation is the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

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4L9a TIL that James Bond was modeled after a real spy named Wilfrid “Biffy” Dunderdale - MI6’s man in Paris, he was also friends with Ian Flemming and it appears that several of Dunderdale’s stories ended up in Flemming’s books.
OoLJg TIL there are a few generations that will never know what it’s like to have sex while wearing an N95 mask.
0r75 TIL a scientist from Utah used his obituary to confess that not only had he never graduated from college or got a Ph.D, but that he never even learned what Ph.D stood for.
W79MB TIL the US box office for the James Bond film No Time to Die was $160,891,007.
4XjkJ TIL that government agencies are training eagles to take down drones flying in restricted airspace and warfare situations