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TIL Shaquille O'Neal earned a PhD in Education, and his thesis was on “Humor in Leadership”.

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8eGOV TIL Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, Strangers on a Train) once attended a party with 100 pet snails in her handbag, calling them her "companions for the evening"
ANrwa TIL that the McGurk Effect shows how our brains integrate visual and auditory information for speech perception. If the visual information of a speaker’s mouth movements doesn’t match the sound, our brains may perceive a completely different sound.
R0l4 TIL 99% of women and 95% of men talk to their pets (and 93% of women/87% of men think their pets communicate back).
R74DQ TIL - Sylvester Stallone almost died filming Rocky IV when he asked Dolph Lundgren to try and hit him for real. Dolph hit Sylvester so hard it bruised his heart, which swelled up and sent Stallone to the hospital for a week. He said it felt liked he'd been in a serious car crash.
LkGZv TIL that rotisserie chickens are often cheaper than whole raw chickens because grocery stores use them to bring more people into the store and also they are often made with poultry that is about to reach its best by date