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TIL about the Bouba-Kiki effect, which is a universal, inherent and nonarbitrary bias found in most adults to ascribe visual shapes to speech sounds.

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pYYZb TIL the We Can Do It poster is not Rosie the Riveter and was only used internally by one company
WkL6Y TIL that Keanu Reeves came to the aid of Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer when she first moved to LA and was stranded on the side of the road
Xkyr TIL that the cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather used to hang around the studio and was simply dropped into his lap at the last minute by the director
OGL9R TIL there's a bacterium visible to the naked eye called Thiomargarita magnifica, reaching up to 2 cm long
edMn TIL the Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 1/10th of 1% of American prisoners, but is responsible for 18% of prison murders