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TIL that Jim Dale performed 300 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks and had to playback recordings of himself on set to remember each one, each time.

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aXJ9 TIL scientists found that men wearing white t-shirts with a large black letter “T” printed on the front were 12% more attractive to women. The t-shirt creates the illusion of broadened shoulders and a slim waist, a male body shape women typically find attractive.
VB6lG TIL Albert Einstein holds a patent for a refrigerator. He created the device after learning a faulty fridge seal killed a family in Berlin. It was rendered obsolete a few years later by the invention of Freon.
GYRRJ TIL that it is virtually impossible to die from quicksand in the way movies portray this.
grvAX TIL the number of legal board positions in the game Go has been calculated to be far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe
BrVJr TIL the word "hello" was only first published in 1827, and was used as a greeting following the invention of the telephone, after beating out Alexander Graham Bell's preferred greeting, "ahoy"