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TIL Staring at Venetian blinds can cause migraines. "Looking at intensely stripy things causes an increase in gamma oscillations in the brain."

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mkRE TIL The arabic version of the Simpsons is called “Al Shamshoon”, Homer was named Omar, he drank soda instead of beer and ate beef instead of pork. Ned was not a christian and Moe’s tavern was edited out all together. Only 34 episodes were aired out of the 54 reworked ones.
jNAbX TIL Two pigmy whales, a mother and a calf got stranded in a beach unable to navigate back to the ocean past a series of sandbanks. Seeing their plight a dolphin arrived and guided the whales 200 yards along the shoreline and out through a channel into the open sea.
p8gpG TIL vanilla extract is required to be at least 35% alcohol
E9vp TIL Donkey Kong was Mario’s pet who he had abused and later kidnapped his girlfriend as revenge for the mistreatment
pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.