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You're at the grocery store, and around the corner walks a familiar face. She looks just like someone you've met, and you try desperately to place her. Did you meet her at that cocktail party two years ago, or is she a long-lost college classmate? You walk up to her and wave, but in return, you're greeted with a blank stare.

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Pl9J TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
kOoQe TIL that a woman refused to board a lifeboat when the Titanic was sinking as she refused to be parted from her dog. Several days later, passengers on the SS Bremen passing by the wreckage in the water, saw the body of a woman tightly holding a large shaggy dog in her arms.
ekBD TIL a 1995 WHO study that stated “Occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems” was never published because the US threatened to withdraw US funding for all WHO research projects
oP5L TIL GZA of Wu-Tang Clan is working on an album to teach science through Hip Hop. Oh yeah, Neil deGrasse Tyson is helping out.
e018n TIL Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused, wrote a long first draft in about a month. He never made a penny off anything to do with it because he waived most of his rights to pay for the soundtrack