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TIL that sirens are designed to trigger fear circuits in the brain.

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myRp TIL that Woody Allen refused oscars saying, “The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don’t.”
j6o4X TIL Jeffrey Hunter, the original Captain Christopher Pike, died in 1969 never knowing how popular Star Trek would become and how iconic he would be.
vP8vB TIL all humans share a common ancestor called "Mitochondrial Eve," who lived around 150,000-200,000 years ago in Africa. She is the most recent woman from whom all living humans today descend through their mother's side. Her mitochondrial DNA lineage is the only one to persist to modern times.
gMbNX TIL Sir David Lean's 1948 film adaption of Oliver Twist was banned in Israel for Sir Alec Guinness's performance as Fagin, which it considered too anti-Semitic. Egypt banned it for portraying Fagin too sympathetically
XOxk TIL that Louis Vuitton burns all their unsold bags every year.