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TIL that the term ‘iPhone face’ describes an actor in a period movie or TV show whose face is too distractingly modern to be believable.

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YpZwA TIL of Fan Death, a popular superstition in South Korea believing that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan can cause death. Despite no evidence of death, it is believed the South Korean government created this myth to lessen energy consumption during the 1970 energy crisis
5YQVP TIL mosquitoes fill no significant ecological niche, and if they went extinct there would be few, if any ill effects.
XLlk TIL that in 2012, after they won a shooting competition in Kuwait, the Kazakhstan team were subjected to the anthem from Borat, rather than their own national anthem at the medals ceremony.
v1jaj TIL - that during WW1, the British created a campaign to shame men into enlisting. Women would hand out White Feathers to men not in uniform and berate them as cowards. The it was so successful that the government had to create badges for men in critical occupations so they would not be harassed.
kgg4 TIL of John Stapp, a man who withstood 46.2 Gs of gravity, suffered a detached retina and went 632 MPH all in a single run on a deceleration sled