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TIL nobody can say for sure why an Epicanthic fold occurs. It maybe an evolutionary advantage in cold conditions, yet it occurs in certain medical conditions regardless of environment

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aNDo TIL Newton’s flaming laser sword is a philosophical razor that states anything that cannot be settled by experiment is not worthy of debating.
b9meN TIL- 'Gaslighting' is a form of psychological torture where false, misleading and/ or contradicitng information is given to a subject to cause them to doubt their own sanity.
Y711W TIL A downtown Vancouver mall invites individuals with nowhere to go to sleep on the property overnight overnight and use its facilities when it opens its doors early in the morning. Night-shift employees conduct life safety checks, with first aid and mental health training
YBLx TIL Stanley Kubrick told journalists to pronounce the “2001” in “2001: A Space Odyssey” as “two thousand and one” in the hope that the movie would influence the pronunciation of that year.
e0ZK5 TIL that Harry Houdini’s first public performance was at age 9 as a trapeze artist, billing himself as “Ehrich Prince of the Air“