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TIL the first computer mouse was made of wood
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TIL Radiohead were so inspired by iron lungs, they went into a hospital to shoot one in order to use it as the artwork for their second album. However they found it boring and instead used footage of a PCR mannequin. They said it expressed "sensations of extasy and agony, simultaneously".
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TIL that your brain can still process information garnered through your eyes even if your visual cortex is damaged or doesn’t work at all. You can ‘see’ without seeing.
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TIL that Christopher Nolan didn’t want to make TDKR following Heath Ledger’s death, but he agreed to make the movie if Warner Bros. allowed him free reign to make anything he wanted in the interim. The end result was Inception.
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TIL That there is an instrument you can play without physical contact it's called the theremin
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TIL a woman who went by the name 'Dove of Oneness' said that the US Congress passed a secret law that forgave mortgages and zeroed out credit cards in order to advance a financial scam.