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TIL Spongebob is canonically asexual
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TIL Critical Periods: Periods of time where an organism's brain is extremely malleable and sensitive to stimuli. If the organism doesn't receive the appropriate stimulus during this critical period to learn a given skill- it maybe difficult or even impossible to develop certain associated functions
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TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
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TIL oily rags can spontaneously self-ignite because the oil reacts with oxygen in a reaction to produce heat, and a bunched up cloth can trap the heat enough to reach ignition temperatures.
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TIL that Bill Murray once drove a taxi cab so that the cab driver could spend time playing saxophone in the backseat. The cab driver mentioned that he never had time to play his sax since he had to work 14 hours a day. Murray took the driver’s seat so that he could finally play some tunes.
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TIL solitaire was included in Windows to teach people how to use a mouse in a graphical user interface