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TIL that the moon seems huge on the horizon because your brain quietly edits the scene. It is called the Moon Illusion.

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BlGW TIL doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 % fewer mistakes in surgery and performed the task 27% faster than non-gaming surgeons.
W7gY8 TIL that Iceman, a movie partiality based in Otzi the Iceman, is one of the few movies that used an extinct language in the dialogues, being ancient Rhaetian
rNAyd TIL the art director for Teen Titans Go, Dan Hipp, has his own manga series called “Gyakushu”
kVd4 TIL A crocodile can’t move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.