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TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization

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kJBd4 TIL the hottest man-made temperature was 7.2 trillion degrees Farenheit, 250,000 times hotter than the sun
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b944 TIL when Miramax tried to edit Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, the produces reminded Miramax of their no edits policy by mailing a katana with the words “No cuts”
Z8OxY TIL that in addition to Kamikaze pilots, the Japanese in WW2 used manned torpedoes as a suicide weapon. The pilot would sit inside and manually direct the torpedo towards the target to maximize the amount of hits scored from torpedoes fired.
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