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TIL Samuel L Jackson stuttered as a child. He "pretended to be other people who didn't stutter" to overcome it. He still uses the word "motherfucker" to get through a speech block as he still has days when he stutters

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D1NWe TIL That the coldest temperature recorded was -144°F in Vostok Antartica. Humans can’t inhale air that cold for more than a few breaths—it would cause your lungs to hemorrhage. Russian scientists ducking out to check on the weather station would wear masks that warmed the air before they breath in.
mG7O TIL in the US west of Washington DC there’s a National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence where cellphones are banned
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