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TIL the memory technique that Sherlock Holmes uses, known as a “Mind Palace”, is a real technique and that most of the people who have mastered this practice are of average intelligence.

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R7Rx8 TIL the "artificial banana" flavor is based on a real kind of banana called the Gros Michel. It was actually the predominant commercial banana available in the US prior to the 1950s, until a plague mostly wiped them out and they were replaced with the Cavendish banana we have today.
E1jJw TIL Dr. Seuss attended Oxford but never received a degree from there as he met his future wife, Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to drop out. Helen would commit suicide leaving Dr. Seuss without any children which is where he famously said "You have 'em, I'll entertain 'em".
D1w4e TIL actor Jack Gleeson, who played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones, said the scene he enjoyed the most after three seasons on the show, was when Joffrey’s corpse was lying on a plinth in the set with ceremonial stones covering his eyes, because he got to sleep for the whole day.
woK0W TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.
Yp4QW TIL that the blue power ranger of mighty morphin left his role after homophobic harassment by the production crew which almost drove him to suicide