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TIL not all people have an internal monologue and people with them have stronger mental visual to accompany their thoughts.

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d87g8 TIL Da Vinci discovered that severing the spinal column of a frog resulted in instant death. But it seems he felt disturbed by hurting living things, stopped working on live animals, and became a vegetarian. In fact, he loved animals so much that he would buy birds at the market and let them go.
Ej17 TIL the word ‘nice’ used to mean 'stupid’.
xbLw TIL that a Chinese man survived a suicide jump because he landed on his “lover”, an inflatable sex doll, which he tried to take during his suicide attempt.
rRKKw TIL the actor who played Glen Coco in Mean Girls wasn't even supposed to be there and never got paid - he snuck onto the set for free food.
Egel7 TIL in 1950 U.S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson’s favorite actress was Ingrid Bergman. However, when it became public knowledge that she had an affair, he introduced legislation banning all Hollywood movies starring amoral actors and actresses. Humiliated, Bergman left the country.