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TIL hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality—visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), equilibrioceptive (balance), nociceptive (harm), thermoceptive (temperature), and chronoceptive (time).

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oYKW TIL that the Leica Camera company smuggled hundreds of Jews out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, masquerading the Jews as employees being assigned overseas. The company helped each refugee find a job, gave each of them a Leica camera, and a monthly stipend till they found work.
P1aRV TIL in WWI 'Male' tanks had cannon and 'Female' tanks had machine guns.
mxoGE TIL In 1992, a hurricane hit Hawaii where they were filming "Jurassic Park." Spielberg's crew had to be evacuated via helicopter; the pilot, Fred Sorenson, had previously met Spielberg while playing the pilot in the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
6E8Q8 TIL, the "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" monkeys actually have a fourth member of their posse — "Do No Evil" — who is commonly shown covering their genitals
6y57 TIL When David Bowie performs “Man Who Sold the World”, he would encounter kids that say “It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.” He would in his mind say “Fuck you, you little tosser!”