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TIL that the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they're too afraid to drive themselves. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year

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OG68g TIL that shortly after his death, the corpse of actor John Barrymore (1882-1942) was “borrowed” by director Raoul Walsh and was left propped on a chair for a drunken Errol Flynn to discover when he came home. In 2020, John’s granddaughter, Drew Barrymore, confirmed this story.
8QoG TIL that “sugar highs” don’t actually exist; glucose causes the release of serotonin, which actually causes you to calm down. Children are hyperactive at parties and holidays because of the psychological situation, not the physiological effect of sugar.
R7Wlj TIL the last US President to fluently speak a foreign language was FDR (French and German).
d85YB TIL how to perform the Heimlich manouver on yourself... Because you deserve to live.
4XjXJ TIL whales and dolphins evolved from a meat eating terrestrial cow relative that likely had hooves and a cow-like multi-chambered, ruminant digestive system. Modern Cetaceans still have a ruminant-like digestive system described as a “hybrid” between true carnivores and herbivores.