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TIL people aren't 'left brain' or 'right brain', and the best seller 'Drawing on the right side of the brain' has absolutely no basis in neuroscience.

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1ayWD TIL Walmart is the world’s largest retail company. From 2005 to 2018 US companies dominated the ten world’s largest retailers.
neXXB TIL that Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath fame once got arrested for punching a Nazi in a bar
x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.
1avX7 TIL of Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a medical disorder in which people with total blindness or impaired vision can suddenly hallucinate entire scenes in vivid color as if they were seeing normally, these episodes can last for a few minutes and can even reoccur for years
ygAV TIL David Ogilvy, a founder/forefather of modern advertising, despised outdoor ads: “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes… chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”