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TIL that KitKat sections are called "fingers"

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awM7b TIL that the Hays code had a rule only allowing kissing to go on for 3 seconds in movies. Alfred Hitchcock got around this rule for his 1946 film, Notorious, by two actors break off every three seconds. The whole sequence lasts two and a half minutes.
Egeyw TIL that plap is the sound a thrust makes during sexual penetration.
XErOR TIL of Radivoke Lajic, a man in Bosnia whose house has been hit by meteorites 6 times. He thinks aliens are targeting him.
gmjD TIL there is a way of speaking called Vocal Frying that is common among young American females. Studies show it is undermining their success in the workforce.
rnPW TIL that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx.