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TIL blinking gives our mind a brief mental rest and helps us focus on our work more when we open our eyes, it kind of resets the brain.

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dyGr TIL that in 1963, Alfred Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries.
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