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TIL 44% of Americans can’t swim

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awbyA TIL that Walt Disney based movements of Mickey Mouse and of animatronic characters in Disneyland rides on the captured dancing and walking of Buddy Ebsen, later TV's Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones.
xVv9k TIL that Vanilla Ice wrote “Ice Ice Baby” at the age of 16, and that its music video was shot on a budget of only $8,000.
9wbyp TIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the brain at once, it’s more effective than almost anything else at distracting from pain and discomfort.
QJbgk TIL the 1983 movie "Trading Places" with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy became a Christmas Eve classic in Italy, being broadcast by Italian television every year since 1986.
b9meN TIL- 'Gaslighting' is a form of psychological torture where false, misleading and/ or contradicitng information is given to a subject to cause them to doubt their own sanity.