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TIL that at restaurants in Utah, you have to order food with your alcohol

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DwgY TIL there are fake Harry Potter books written and distributed in China, masquerading as additional works of J.K. Rowling. They shamelessly rip off other authors’ work in tandem with hers, with amazing titles like “Harry Potter and the Leopard Walk-Up-To Dragon” and “Harry Potter and the Big Funnel.”
yBYa TIL that film-maker Casey Neistat spent the entire promo budget for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty on the Philippines-typhoon-aid, with permission of 20th Century Fox.
grdjb TIL: The football huddle was first invented by a deaf college team (Gallaudet University) in 1894 to keep the opposing team (also deaf) from reading their plays which were signed in ASL
NXvXP TIL about the Argument from incomplete devastation. The argument is a form of argument from observed miracles. Plane crashes, 200 died, 1 survived, there is a God.
VM68m TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.