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TIL That Nascar racers lose 5-10 pounds of sweat during a race

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MvPb TIL that Denise Nickerson, the girl who played Violet, chewed so much gum on the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that she ended up with 13 cavities after filming.
Z8VLa TIL psilocybin was used to "reset" the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression. Many depressed patients used computer analogies to describe their feelings after using the chemical, such as being 'defragged' like a computer hard drive, or like their brain had been 'rebooted'
8aVVG TIL A Canadian police officer was busted smuggling in cheese from the US. Fixed pricing on dairy has created a cheese black market within the country.
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Zp85a TIL that in the 1970s, Sony made a prototype of a video game console, two decades before the PlayStation would release