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TIL people have consumed corn silk to treat gonorhea and to make children stop urinating on their beds

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R7YY7 TIL Disney theme parks use various techniques to make standing in long lines bearable, such as building walls around twisting lines, thus keeping people from knowing how long the line actually is, inflating wait times, and making patrons watch holograms that give context to the rides.
d8y79 TIL: Long periods of isolation without sunlight creates 'time-shifting' effects on the mind to the point of sleep-wake cycles being doubled.
X06LR TIL that there is a drug screen done by a lab called "ICUP"
4XdOw TIL that Toy Story 2 was nearly lost before it was finished. Someone entered a line of code that erased 90% of the film, and, because of a technical gliltch, there was no backup. The movie was saved by one animator who'd been working from home and had a copy saved on her personal computer.
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft