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TIL ear wax production can increase with stress or fear.

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b6Zn0 TIL: the term is milquetoast (timid, weak, unassertive), not milk toast. It originates from the 1924 comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast. However, the origin is that he's named after a "weak", bland dish of...milk toast (buttered toast served in a shallow bowl of warm milk).
KOjMR TIL that Oprah dated movie critic Roger Ebert
wmJW TIL that Morrisey (a vegetarian) ordered all bags to be checked for meat on one of his concerts in 2011. In 1985, while promoting the album Meat is Murder, Morrisey walked out of the stage after a sausage was thrown at his direction.
MWXW TIL Spiderwort is natures Geiger counter the petals of the flower turn from blue to pink when exposed to radiation
jEpn TIL that a man rediscovered a technique to shoot 3 arrows in 1.5 seconds (or 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds), one of many ancient and medieval archery techniques that were lost and were thought impossible by modern archery