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TIL The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.

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5AEQ TIL Eric Cartman of South Park has committed 42 crimes, including Murder, Cannabilism, Unlicensed Surgery and Terrorism
N75Zb TIL turning down the radio in your car to concentrate more may actually increase visual acuity, it's your brains way of prioritizing tasks.
BOAd TIL in medical dramas, 75% of patients who receive CPR are revived. A study of real-world patients found the rate to be as low as 4%
oBpQE TIL Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom so her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self conscious
OonVL TIL of Julian Jaynes's "Bicameral Mind Theory" which suggests that ancient humans were not self aware and that the right hemisphere communicated with the left via auditory hallucinations. These voices may have been interpreted as "gods" by early humans.