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TIL that telling other people about your goals can impede you accomplishing them, because it makes you feel like you’re already closer to your goal.

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5QAQ TIL that in the book that Russell Crowe’s film “Master and Commander” is based on, the villain is an American ship during the war of 1812. The producers didn’t want to alienate American audiences, so they made the villain French and shifted the timeframe to the Napoleonic Wars.
6Ekpm TIL about Orlando Serrell, after being hit in the head at the age of 10 with a baseball he can recall the weather, where he was, and what he did every day since his accident
5Y0B9 TIL Carleton Gajdusek, who first described the prion disease kuru, had the rare distinction of being a Nobel prizewinner and a convicted child molester. As a medical researcher he studied kuru, an incurable disease that affects the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and published 150 papers
pY9Re TIL there is a rare disorder called uncombable hair syndrome caused by a genetic mutation that changes the hair shape from cylindrical to triangular
lGa7 TIL in 1986, Silo ran an advertisement for a stereo system that cost “299 bananas”. Costumers took this literally, costing the store $10,465.