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TIL that surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week make 37% fewer errors and are 27% more efficient in their procedures.

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kX7B TIL that often times before a person dies from hypothermia, they experience a burst of extreme heat and it causes them to undress themselves. This is known as paradoxical undressing.
9w4bD TIL about Yule logs, which are logs burns on a hearth to celebrate Yule
OGndX TIL Pink Floyd's song "Is There Anybody Out There?" features dialogue from the 1967 Gunsmoke TV episode 'Fandango'. The actress who asks, "Is it unsafe to travel at night?" is Diana Muldaur, who played doctors in the original Star Trek series and Dr. Pulaski in ST:Next Generation.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.
bN60 TIL Frank Welker is the original voice for the animated cartoon character Fred from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969) and 47 years later continues to voice him (and now Scooby) for the new cartoon adaptations.