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Turns out the phrase "cold feet" actually has some, erm, scientific footing.

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l7jy7 TIL that Liang shi, 56, has failed his college entrance exam 27 times in a row, he started in 1983.
VJR0 TIL that taller people make bigger salaries. Approx $789 a year per inch
edOE TIL the phrase “all natural” is completely unregulated and can be used to describe any product. “The lack of standards in most jurisdictions means that the term assures nothing.”
4XJYw TIL that the BBC has a section where the news is written in Pidgin.
N7x1 TIL During the production of Monsters Inc, it normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands. That’s 288 hours for every second of animation!