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TIL when you get blackout drunk you don’t actually forget anything. Your brain wasn’t “recording” in the first place.

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XEPVQ TIL that bears are considered by many wildlife biologists to be one of the most intelligent land animals of North America. They possess the largest and most convoluted brains relative to their size of any land mammal. In the animal kingdom, their intelligence compares with that of higher primates.
xr77 TIL the Cult Awareness Network listed Scientology as the #1 most dangerous cult. Over 50 Scientologists later filed civil suits against them, many using the same carbon copy claim via 1 law firm. After suing them into bankruptcy, the Church bought the name and started the New Cult Awareness Network.
N7K8Q TIL The song "Blame Canada" in The South Park movie, was nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. Unfortunately the song lost to Phil Collins' "you'll be in my heart" from the movie Tarzan.
mxO0y TIL Alfred Nobel, of the Nobel Prize lost his brother to an accident at his lab. They were working with liquid nitrogen and attempting to create a more stable explosive. Nobel was able to complete his research after the accident and invented dynamite.
DQXWj TIL executives of Dirty Dancing were convinced the movie would flop. They planned to have the film in theaters for one weekend and then to home video. The film went on to become the first movie to sell 1 million home videos.