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TIL as well as writing the song, Phil Collins performed “You’ll Be In My Heart” from Tarzan in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish AND Bulgarian versions of the film.

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jYYM TIL There’s a service called “Cleaning for a reason” in the U.S. and Canada that cleans the houses of women with cancer for free so they can focus on their health.
l7Om7 TIL Walt Disney won 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards; the most by an individual in a single year.
wLXBY An almost sci-fi study published in Physical Review Letters by UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz and colleagues could mean that there are black holes out there that would be more like portals than gaping mouths of destruction — if you didn’t mind your entire past being erased and entering into infinite futures.
jrKj TIL Valve has a flat organisation structure where everybody has an equal voice and anybody can ship a product
oRe5L Today I learned that the opposite of the placebo effect is called the nocebo effect, and occurs when a patient, believing he is taking a drug, is likely to recreate, by suggestion, side effects he may have heard about, or simply read about on the médication package.