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TIL that Jamaican fishermen are able to navigate their boats through dangerous coral reefs in the darkness of a moonless night because of the improved night vision gained by ingesting cannabis.

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RNx6 TIL that we’re on the brink of a global wine shortage, patially because China’s consumption of wine has doubled twice in the last five years.
K7WQ TIL that Fred Mertz does not appear in two episodes of “I Love Lucy” due to the actor William Frawley’s contract, which stated that he did not have to work if the NY Yankees were playing in The World Series.
Wg4B TIL: There is an Ikea effect in which a person places a disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves, regardless of the quality of the end result.
Y7xRx TIL: The stereotype of someone having a seizure say they smell buring toast comes from a real life 1950s case of Dr Wilder Penfield whose patient would smell burning toast before having a seizure
YpwAZ TIL in 1966, model Nell Theobald garnered fame after she was attacked by a lion during a BMW photo shoot at the International Automobile Show. She used the money she received in the lawsuit settlement to intensify her obsessive stalking of opera singer Birgit Nilsson, following her around the globe.