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TIL THE KEY TO BECOME MENTALLY STRONGER: Motivational video 2020

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Brwnr TIL that using a fridge to prove bread dough reduces the temperature of the dough, allowing it to prove slower and longer, which increases its digestibility.
KlAa TIL that Mad Magazine publisher William Gaines once took his entire staff to Haiti to convince the sole Haitian subscriber to renew. When a neighbor also bought a subscription Gaines then declared the trip to be a financial success because the magazine had doubled its Haitian circulation.
7r0rr TIL about 'holy anorexia' - Medieval Catholic saints "refused food, but drank the pus from the sores of the sick. Angela of Foligno is reported to have said it was as "sweet as the Eucharist", and also to have eaten the scabs and lice from those same patients"
KYK94 TIL the author of the Minecraft End Poem released it into the public domain, neither Mojang nor Microsoft owns it
MvZ7 TIL that Clint Eastwood,when offered to play James Bond,declined the role because he believed it should be played by an English actor.