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TIL inner speech can clock in at 4,000 words per minute, 10X faster than verbal speech.

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ADl4a TIL that Dick Van Dyke was unaware of his horrifically bad Cockney accent in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. None of his fellow actors said a word about it.
rNkZo TIL the word "Brunch" was coined in 1895 by someone writing an essay for a magazine.
xV7Xk TIL that Lithuanian politician Artūras Zuokas won an IG Nobel prize in 2011, for “demonstrating that the problem of illegal parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with a tank”. Zuokas had used an armoured vehicle to run over an illegally parked car in a Vilinus bike lane.
pYoON TIL that demand for semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) in 2024 forced Novo Nordisk to run factories 24/7, 365 days a year, hire 10,000+ workers, and spend $6B on expansion. New UK prescriptions were also halted due to shortages.
JYgZl TIL the UK is the worlds largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis