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TIL Blue Manakin birds perform complex group dancing routines

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oDYL TIL In 2008, two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found “the perfect male voice” to be a combination of Iron’s and Alan Rickman’s voices based on a sample of 50 voices. Coincidentally, the two actors played brothers in the Die Hard series of films.
M7KD0 TIL about psychologist George M. Stratton who invented the upside down goggles and used it to prove that human brain can adapt to the inverted vision. He wore them for 7 days and felt weird until the last day that he adapted until he took them off and felt strange again for several hours.
5Y8Zp TIL Brazil has the largest population of Japanese people globally, besides Japan itself.
ryVy TIL The Slender Man is protected by copyright by Eric Knudsen, the man who originally came up with the concept on SomethingAwful
QNv6 TIL that a new laser will be powerful enough to rip apart space itself