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TIL Charles Darwin referred to blushing as “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”

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jNvZE TIL the Harry Potter books sold roughly the same as the movies at $7.7 billion USD
MwK8 TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
pEgQ TIL that Johnny Cash’s estate once refused permission for his hit “Ring of Fire” to be used in a commercial for haemorrhoid cream.
yQJQv TIL chronic dehydration can cause respiratory problems.
NXe9J TIL about Loab, an unexpectedly emergent image from artificial intelligence (AI) research featuring a distressed macabre older woman, the subsequent iterations of which have become increasingly violent and gory.