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TIL during filming of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick made Jack Nicholson eat cheese sandwiches, which he hates, to get him into character

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Zp9rB TIL Jordan Chandler initially denied the allegations against Michael Jackson until his dentist father, Evan Chandler, used the sedative sodium amytal during a dental surgery. Sodium amytal puts people in a hypnotic state and can enable false memories to be implanted.
GYa74 Today I learned that Penn & Teller first performed together 45 years ago at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, sometimes with a third performer, billed as "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society."
gpgb TIL that a Naked Mole Rat can survive up-to 18 minutes without oxygen by dropping its heart rate and switching to fructose based anaerobic respiration. It’s also the only known cold-blooded mammal.
d8ABd TIL that the creator of the popular board game "Guess Who?" was a classmate of Anne Frank
v1eeK TIL there is a program in Indianapolis, Indiana called No One Dies Alone (NODA) where volunteers will stay beside a dying patient who has no one to visit them.