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TIL that Green tea can improve your cognitive function, in particular the working memory

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mrXp TIL 37 years after dropping out of college, Steven Spielberg decided to finish his Bachelor of Arts degree at Long Beach University. He turned in his Oscar-winnning Schindler’s List as his student film assignment.
j6ZGX TIL the Dumb Ways to Die song was a public campaign by an Australian rail network to promote railway safety awareness. It is credited with a 30% drop in rail accidents.
gad7 TIL that Dr. Armand Trousseau, who first identified the link between blood clots and cancer [called Trousseau Syndrome], died of cancer soon after finding a blood clot in his leg; thus, self-diagnosing, suffering and succumbing to the very disease he discovered and named after himself.
ADnRg TIL that on the first day the Suez Canal opened, Nov 17, 1869, a French ship named the Péluse ran aground and blocked the canal, forcing ships stuck in the canal to wait until the next morning when the Péluse was hauled away.
KY65B TIL Perfect environment created for wild pandas has made them too comfortable to feel the urge to breed