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TIL India’s Dabbawala’s food delivers are so accurate, Fedex and Harvard study their methods

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b9g94 TIL that Bruce Willis is partially deaf in his left ear due to some of the loud explosions and gunfire while filming Die Hard. “Due to an accident on the first Die Hard, I suffer two-thirds partial hearing loss in my left ear and have a tendency to say, ‘Whaaa?’” Willis said.
1617 TIL that pigeons can be superstitious, continually repeating movements that coincided with a first feeding even if fed at random intervals.
D1dWg TIL that fentanyl lollipops are used in the US military to treat combat casualties. They are taped to the victim's finger so that, once sedated, they let the lollipop fall from their mouth to reduce the chance of overdoses.
9wvGD TIL about Julian of Norwich - the first (named) woman to have written English
w8D6 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.