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TIL that drinking heavy water and alcohol together cancels out the vertigo. If not heavy water, then glycerol works too.

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e08Ln TIL the actress who played the girl in the red jacket in Schindler's List was 3 at the time of filming. Spielberg asked her not to watch the film until she was 18, but she watched it when she was 11 and said she was "horrified"
JYoVV TIL "ParseError" created a lamp that creates a thunderstorm of light whenever the POTUS tweets in Twitter. Each tweet is materialized by a series of lightning roaring through the clouds, disturbing the soft glow of the lamp.
nWvyd TIL; After Monster Cable's contract for Beats by Dr. Dre ended in 2012, they experienced a decline in staffing to currently "less than 10 people"
VB1MQ TIL of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Notable guests include Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law), SS General Sepp Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich.
jNE4Q TIL Phil Collins (of Genesis) wrote the Captain Planet and The Planeteers theme song