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TIL that coca cola has been training us to think of coke when we hear 5 notes that appear in their commercials

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xV510 TIL 6’4” Michael Phelps legs are the same length as 5’9” marathoner Hicham El Guerrouj. It is Phelps short legs and long torso that help make him such a great swimmer.
kOw9E TIL that in 1994 Rashida Jones (Karen from The Office & Ann from Parks and Rec.) wrote an open letter to Tupac in response to remarks made by him about her parents' interracial marriage. They eventually patched up their differences and Tupac went on to become friends with Rashida and her family.
PMVV TIL that in 2010 a robot programmed to fall in love got a little too attached to a woman and wouldn’t let her leave the room.
x0Kg TIL that many popular parenting practices may be linked to reduced brain development in infants. Such practices include “the use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms or the belief that responding too quickly to a fussing baby will ‘spoil’ it.”
7rGOb TIL that more than half of the wildfire firefighters in California are inmates being paid less than $2 an hour