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TIL drinking alcohol DOES improve your ability to speak a foreign language.

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VMPDB TIL that among the horrified audience who watched the television premiere of the apocalyptic nuclear war movie "Threads" on BBC was a kid named Charlie Brooker. He later cited the bleak and plausible future presented by Threads as an influence in creating the dystopian world of Black Mirror.
R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.
8av9K TIL Conrad Heyer is the earliest born person to be photographed. He was born in 1749 and sat for a photo in 1852 at age 103. He is the only known photographed revolutionary war soldier to have crossed the Delaware with George Washington.
j66yX TIL about the Stadium Sponsorship Curse, which is the phenomenon of bad things happening to companies that put their name on a sports stadium.
vPGmL TIL that Rod Temperton wrote Vincent Price’s famous "Thriller" spoken-word sequence while in a taxi cab on his way to the recording studio. Vincent Price then recorded his spoken-word sequence in two takes.