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TIL That Mad Max: Fury Road had filming moved from the Broken Hill region of NSW to Namibia after unusual rainfall caused the desert landscape to bloom with wild flowers.

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kJ5W5 TIL about Landon Jones, a boy from Iowa who, in 2014, suddenly lost the ability to feel hungry or thirsty, refusing to eat and dropping from 104 to 68 pounds within a year. There’s been no update on his progress
8eggb TIL Cathode-ray tubes, the technology behind old TVs and monitors, were in fact particle accelerators that beamed electrons into screens to generate light and then images
G757 TIL that during the filming of Star Trek (2009) Zachary Quinto could not manage to properly do the Vulcan salute. Eventually, JJ Abrams had to glue his fingers together in order for Quinto to do it correctly.
RxGa TIL that on ships at sea there is a difference between “aye aye sir” and “yes sir”. “Aye aye sir” indicates that an order has been received, is understood and will be carried out immediately. “Yes sir” would only indicate agreement to an order.
Vjd0 TIL: Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest relationships in all of social psychology. Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses.