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TIL that — through the lens of modern data analytics — a simple voice recording can yield thousands of speech parameters that may reveal a user’s biometric identity, body shape, personality traits, mental & physical health, emotions, drug habits, geographical origin, and socioeconomic status.

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jQNj TIL that nematodes (C. elegans) from an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were found alive in the wreckage of the shuttle disaster in 2003.
x6AR0 TIL that to always win at Guess Who? instead of asking narrow questions you should ask broad questions, like "Does your person's name start with the letter A through M?" versus narrow questions like "Does your person have red hair?". Using this method you can guess the correct person in 5-6 tries.
8aGA4 TIL that Mao Zedong ordered mass genocide of Sparrows which caused the ecological imbalance as pests and bugs increased rapidly which resulted in less produce which further caused Great Chinese Famine which killed 20-45 million people due to starvation.
8aGyb TIL Breakfast wasn’t regarded as the most important meal of the day until an aggressive marketing campaign by General Mills in 1944. They would hand out leaflets to grocery store shoppers urging them to eat breakfast, while similar ads would play on the radio.
DXv TIL that Justin Berfield, who played Reese in the TV series ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ is actually younger than Frankie Muniz who played his younger brother Malcolm. [Fixed]