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TIL Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts

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7W6O TIL Drinking lemonade helps keep kidney stones from forming. Useful if you are prone to kidney stones.
kx4m TIL George Lucas, fearing his film’s failure, traded Steven Spielberg 2.5% of earnings of ‘Star Wars’ for that of 'Close Encounters’. Spielberg has made $40 million to date.
dYoB TIL the founders of Bebo sold the site for $850M. They later bought it back for just $1M.
awXGZ TIL that during the American Revolution at the Siege of Boston —as winter approached— the Americans were so short on gunpowder that soldiers were given spears to fight with in the event of a British attack
awVdy TIL about “The Great Filter”, a theoretically point in evolution that only a minuscule fraction of species could evolve past. This may explain why we have never contacted other high functioning species. Also, we do not know if humans have yet to reach it, or have already passed it.