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TIL that mimicking the behavior of others causes you to be perceived as more friendly by interlocutors. This is known as “The Chameleon Effect.”

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7e5r TIL the Olympic flame in 1976 traveled by radio waves to a laser that lit the cauldron.
WV08 TIL the zero-gravity scenes in Apollo 13 are actually real. The crew filmed 4 hours of material in 612 parabola flights.
6984Q TIL that in the last two seasons of FRIENDS, each cast member earned $1 million per episode. And now, they make $20 million per year each for reruns. All thanks to David Schwimmer, who encouraged the cast to negotiate together as a team.
OKbe TIL that nannies would masturbate their children to put them to sleep up until the seventeenth century.
nXX7 TIL the world’s oldest choir, in Germany, has survived the Thirty Years War, the plague, and both the Nazi and Communist regimes to mark their 801st anniversary this year.