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TIL that Sandra Bullock’s highest grossing film is Minions.

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4kKJo TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders
wL716 TIL that the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Jersey City consists of two parallel stainless steel walls, each 210 feet long by 30 feet high, that not only remember the names of the 476 New Jersey victims but also illuminate a dramatic halo of light that touches each name at dusk and at dawn.
KYVY4 TIL that NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now called MASLD. Stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Affects more than 30% of the population globally and rising. Key risk for heart disease. Main cause is insulin resistance. Weight loss of 5-7% can reduce it.
yVrPw TIL that Sigmund Freud's theories inadvertently sparked a revolution in psychology; his ideas were seen (in many cases) as extremely outlandish and wrong, sparking a lot of psychologists to seek to prove them incorrect and revitalizing the field as a whole.
rRvgx TIL predatory dragonflies the size of modern seagulls were present on the earth about 300 million years ago. The leading theory suggests that their large size was due to high oxygen concentrations (over 30% unlike the 21% today) in the atmosphere.