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TIL that giving a newborn baby water can make the baby sick

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w0jE TIL that after the Wachowskis pitched the idea of The Matrix to Warner Bros and asked for an $80mil budget, WB said no and gave them $10mil. The Wachowskis spent the $10mil on the opening scene of the film, which they showed WB who were so impressed that they ended up giving them the entire $80mil
Lkg7v TIL Prof John Lorber discovered a maths genius who had almost no brain due to a condition known as hydrocephalus. He went on to discover many other people with 90% of their brains missing that had normal to high IQs
7rEGZ TIL The chemise cagoule, was a heavy nightshirt worn by Catholic men and women during the Middle Ages in order to permit a husband to impregnate his wife without having more physical contact. The chemise cagoule covered all sexual areas, but left an opening for necessary contact.
WMmo TIL key parts of our ability to process and synthesize new information shut down whenever we’re confronted with something we disagree with.
b9r49 TIL in 1935, suspected for murder Lloyd Holmes shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol in a boatshed. However, the bullet only knocked him unconscious causing him to fall into the water. He later awoke, climbed into a speedboat, and lead the police on a chase for several hours.