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5YBG9 TIL that in 2013, a head injury left an Australian woman with a French accent. This is a case of foreign accent syndrome, which is a medical condition in which patients acquire a foreign accent through a stroke or head trauma.
D17lr TIL that on the set of Star Trek: Voyager, the costume for 7 of 9 required the actress to wear an extremely tight corset underneath the visible uniform. The corset made it impossible for the actress to sit, was difficult to remove, restricted breathing, and using the restroom took up to 20 minutes.
VMaAD TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”
gnE7 TIL When the founders of Google went to Burning Man in 1998, they incorporated a stick figure into the Google logo before they left. This was the first Google Doodle.
1axj4 TIL the UK's famous COBRA national emergency response committee is named after the room in which it meets - the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.