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TIL people are smarter in the summer and fall, to such a degree that it is significantly easier to diagnose dementia in the winter. Other species have similar “seasonal plasticity”.

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Mea1V TIL that Jonah Hill holds the title for "The Sweariest Actor in Hollywood", with 375 curse words on the big screen. Samuel L Jackson is actually in THIRD place.
9YMoB TIL: The music video for Buddy Holly by Weezer was included on the Windows 95 CD-ROM.
D1QOJ TIL the 550 Porsche Spyder that killed James Dean is believed to be cursed. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean he’d be “dead by this time next week if he got in that car.” Seven days later Dean would be killed by his beloved ‘Little Bastard’ Porsche. And he wasn’t the only life claimed by the cursed car.
LQEg9 TIL that in the U.S. in 1902, more than half of new car registrations were for steam-powered cars. Steam engines were safe, reliable, and familiar, having already been used in trains and boats. However, they were heavy, slow to start (the water had to boil), and required constant attention.
1aLZO TIL recent research argues that fear of spiders has cultural rather biological origins, is predominantly found in Western societies, and comes from an association between spiders and illness that started in the 10th century when the spider was blamed for the devastating epidemics that struck Europe.