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TIL the world record for longest time standing on one leg is 76 hours and 40 minutes set by Suresh Arulanantham Joachim in 1997.

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rRlWx TIL During the Depression, Post Toasties (now Post Consumer Brands) decided to use cartoon animals on its boxes and paid its cartoonist $1.5 million in the first year. That artist was Walt Disney, and he used the earnings to build the Disney empire.
0w55j TIL that male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilised eggs in their mouth to think they’ve dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.
jNQLp TIL that even though they’re all brown and wrinkly, dates (medjool) are a fresh fruit
JYOXV TIL of the Spotlight Effect, a psychological phenomenon where everyone is the center of their own universe, and has a microscope only on their own faults and mistakes. This results in others never even noticing nor remembering what we later regret doing or saying bc they only see their own mistakes.
VmlB TIL that nothing has happened at all in the five months since the CIA lied about and then admitted to hacking the computers of the U.S. Senate committee that was trying to provide oversight of them.