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TIL reindeer abandoned use of the daily clock that drives biological rhythms in order to survive the extreme conditions in the Arctic

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W71OB TIL The emperor of Japan is the only currently reigning monarch whose title is translated into English as "Emperor".
v1NlK Today I learned the late, great voiceover god Peter Thomas of Forensic Files and numerous documentaries provided the voice of Philips brand Automated External Defibrillators. He said that Philips "wanted a voice that wouldn't scare people." Clearly they never watched Forensic Files alone at 3 AM!
16DV7 TIL that Marsha M Linehan, the creator of Dialect Behavior Therapy (DBT) was once an institutionalized patient who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia beginning her "descent into hell". At 18 she could legally leave on her own and went on to be a professor in psychology, diagnosed with BPD.
N7MvP TIL that during the shooting of Westworld, actors knew only their parts of the script, and only on a "need-to-know" basis. Anthony Hopkins had to fight to get access to full scripts.
M5Y8 TIL Richard Nixon entered politics by answering a newspaper ad from a wealthy Republican group of businessmen seeking a new inexperienced candidate to finance and support.