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TIL the title sequence of Fight Club accurately traces a nerve impulse from the brain’s “fear center” to various affected tissues

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N7NWP TIL that of the ten costliest atlantic hurricanes, only one occurred before the year 2000, and half occurred within the past 10 years.
LDwP TIL the Soviets had made a prototype laser pistol for use by their astronauts. The pistol was deigned to burn a hole through the spacesuits of enemy astronauts, killing them via suffocation and/or explosive decompression.
pkL8 TIL Wes Craven designed Freddy Krueger’s striped sweater after reading in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty recognizing those particular shades of red and green side by side. Therefore, looking at it is subliminally unsettling.
PeVe TIL that ‘Intergalactic’ by the Beastie Boys was based on a classical composition called “Night on Bald Mountain.”
e8jg TIL the Alaska Railroad still allows passengers to wave a white cloth along the route and the train will stop to pick them up.