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TIL nobody can stand to be in world’s quietest room for more than 45 minutes. It is so quiet, the sounds of the body’s organs working and blood flowing drives people mad.

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XDKP TIL Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. He re-wrote it, once again in three days.
bNRN TIL that at least about 100 North Korean defectors to South Korea, unable to cope with the new society, isolation, and lack of job prospects, have went back to North Korea.
nWnOd TIL that Mel Brooks was the (uncredited) producer of David Lynch's film _The Elephant Man. He witheld his name from the credits because he did not want audiences to expect a comedy.
PByJ TIL international flights carrying the Pope use the callsign “Shepherd One”
DJMe TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.