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TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.

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oBWv7 TIL the term “Suspension of disbelief,” defined as a "willingness to suspend one's critical faculties . . . for the sake of enjoyment" refers to one of Aristotle’s principles of theater in which the audience accepts fiction as reality so as to experience a catharsis.
4k0rb TIL in 1973, illusionist Uri Geller, famous for spoon bending acts, tricked the CIA into believing he had psychic powers. During classified experiments at Stanford Research Institute, he replicated hidden drawings convincingly using stage magic.
9YxPr TIL that in the 90s Subaru discovered a lot of their customers were lesbians and started marketing directly to them.
v10mB TIL forensic hand analysis is a real thing
mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.