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TIL Herpes can immunize you against the Bubonic Plague.
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TIL The voice of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was actually a ‘2 pack a day’ smoking woman, who was paid $380 for the her services
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TIL the name Gary has almost died out. In 2013 there were only 450 new Gary’s in the US, in the UK just 28
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TIL that a Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found in 1927 that waiters remembered orders only as long as the order was in the process of being served. Unfinished work continues to exert an influence, even when we try to move on to other things. This phenomenon was called The Zeigarnik Effect.
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TIL that the biblical Jacob was 77 when he first met his second wife Rachel, who was 14
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TIL that “eigengrau” is the color we see in perfect darkness, and that it can be controlled consciously.