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

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4XxbJ TIL Coffee improves short term memory, creativity and alertness.
d888K TIL That in the 1700’s, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous because people died after eating them. The real issue was people using pewter plates and the acidity of tomatoes leached lead out of them causing lead poisoning
Oo9Eg TIL Beth Broderick, probably best known for playing Aunt Zelda in "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, got her start in acting by doing softcore adult films.
X8Wj TIL of Gemina the giraffe with a crooked neck. She was an inspiration to disabled children and was featured in an episode of a reality show about a girl with scoliosis. Despite her mysterious deformity she lived longer than the average giraffe by about six years.
bQw4 TIL that in the early 2000s, a group of Siberian gangsters shot a seven-part TV series depicting their lives. There were no stuntmen; all the blood and bullets were real.