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TIL Buster Keaton was an international mega silent movie star, but broke down after sound movies took over. He became an alcoholic and was institutionalized in a mental ward but escaped his strait jacket using techniques he learned from Houdini. He then married his nurse but had no memory of it.

4X1lb TIL Show gratitude for better sex Gratitude helps not only for better mental health but for better sex too. A recent study shows that gratitude helps to trigger the person to meet the sexual needs of their partner.
d8EM9 TIL : Author HG Wells pretty much created the template for the modern day disaster movie with his 1897 short story "The Star". It tells of the Earths near miss with a meteor who's gravitational pull causes earthquakes, tidal waves, and the melting of the ice caps. Millions are killed.
8Dd8 TIL that the Prairie Vole (a rodent) is monogamous, while its closest relative the Montane Vole is promiscuous. The ADH receptor gene between the two species is different and cause different behavior. The same gene was injected into a laboratory mouse that showed monogamous behavior afterwards.
VMv4Q TIL that Henry Ford probably never said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - but his tone-deafness to customers' needs in the 1920s, when GM was producing numerous models to Ford's single Model T, caused Ford's market share to drop from 70% to 15% in 6 years
awK8y TIL A study with over 1,600 patients concluded that acetaminophen is ineffective for low back pain and it worked no better than placebo to speed up recovery