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TIL in the film “The Shining”, filming the ‘Heeeere’s Johnny!’ scene took 3 days and 80 doors.

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a8wYM TIL about The Backfire Effect where your brain responds to new information that goes against your worldview as if you were being physically attacked
pBoQ TIL the holes in Pen lids were introduced to prevent suffocation, regardless of how far down the airway they lodge.
ne7NG TIL deer mothers will instinctively come to the rescue of a crying human baby.
VMBrZ TIL that during WW1, French commander Joseph Joffre employed professional car racer Georges Boillot to drive him around the conflict zone at blazing speeds.
oRnKL TIL In 1988 the Polar Bridge Expedition, a group of 13 people, successfully skied from Siberia to Canada