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TIL if you start “The Poseidon Adventure” at 23:35:19pm, you’ll experience New Years at the same time as it’s celebrated on the Poseidon

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PY6Je TIL there is no medical basis for preventing someone with a concussion from falling asleep. In fact, rest is beneficial to the healing process
9YkoG TIL that praising a child’s intelligence may encourage them to only engage in low-risk tasks in which their intelligence won’t be challenged, as learning takes a backseat to praise-seeking. This can last throughout adulthood. For better results, praise them on their efforts instead.
vv9R TIL that the driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years. There is absolutely no precipitation in this region.
grMo9 TIL that in the 1950s British developed a ten-kiloton nuclear land mine that used living chickens as a source of heat to keep their electronics working during winter.
woGeM TIL that the earliest known published collection of liturgical music in Hebrew was published exactly 400 years ago, in 1623, by Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the court of Mantua, Italy, who was so well-thought of that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge required of Jews