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TIL that the Japanese created Nightingale floors that “chirped” when walked on for security.

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e05g6 TIL About the Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado. It celebrates the cryopreservation of "Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel, by organising coffin races or lookalike contests. You can also visit the Tuff Shed where Grandpa is being held frozen.
8Wgb TIL William McGonagall, notorious as an extremely bad poet, was said to be “so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius”.
4XMAg TIL that introverts tend to have larger, thicker gray matter in their prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain that is linked to abstract thought and decision-making — while extroverts have less gray matter (2012 study by Randy Buckner of Harvard University)
awnVo TIL after finishing a match, The Rock ran into a 4'5" wrestler named Hornswoggle and told him “Did you have a good time tonight buddy?”, thinking he was a Make-A-Wish Kid
4XXpR TIL that Shirley Temple, often thought of now as the little darling of golden age cinema, actually was being used to sexually objectify children in mainstream film, often playing a prostitute, or a burlesque dancer.