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TIL movie audiences blink in unison 30% of the time.

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nplo TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.
WnXX TIL of familiar strangers, the background characters that a person usually sees at their workplace or school, but don’t talk with. However, if both were to discover each other in an unfamiliar setting, like a restaurant, they’d finally interact for the first time.
6moW TIL Mark Twain called The Book of Mormon “Chloroform in Print”
6EJeZ TIL that gladiators in Ancient Rome formed trade unions called "collegia" that would often pay for the funerals of fallen gladiators and take care of their families