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TIL that playing the didgeridoo has been clinically proven to help treat sleep apnea.

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N7NyE TIL bilinguals have increased executive control, which is responsible for the cognitive control of behavior. This is because bilinguals need to train their brain to suppress one language when speaking the other. As a result, they become better at controlling behavior and impulses in general.
gMRd9 TIL That the oldest “your mom” joke was found in Iraq in 1976 and is over 3500 years old
dDmaZ TIL there have been more than 300 flavors of Kit Kat chocolate bars produced in Japan since the year 2000
dDDP8 TIL there was an advert in the UK for the food 'faggots'. It was found to have breached the advertising standards code due to the line "I've got nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them". Facebook also banned many users for using the word on their platform.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.