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Rdpl TIL scientists once recruited theater students to drunkenly stumble into bars, to test whether bartenders over-serve patrons. They found that bartenders were more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
L5r9 TIL that there is a company that makes non-reversing mirrors. Instead of ‘mirroring’ you (your left is the mirror’s left), they show you how you actually appear to others (your left becomes the mirror’s right).
Mer47 TIL one way the Romans measured time was through Saeculum - the period of time from the moment an event occurred (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who were alive to see it happen were dead.
49lX TIL the Wizard of Oz filmmakers used a white horse and sponged it down with different colors of Jell-O crystals to create the “horse-of-a-different-color.” The horse made it difficult to film as it wanted to lick the crystals off itself.
b6mmQ TIL that a healthy human can briefly produce about 1.2 Horsepower