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TIL the term sensory-specific satiety, which is where your body can get “full” of one specific type of food but then get a renewed appetite for another type. The concept explains why you can finish a big meal and not be hungry anymore, but then happily eat dessert.

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8ewvb TIL in 1979 basketball legend Magic Johnson turned down an endorsement deal with Nike offering him 100,000 shares of stock and $1 for every pair of shoes sold in favor of a deal with Converse that paid him $100,000 annually. In declining the Nike deal Johnson missed out on over $5 billion.
Y7YQG TIL that the movie October Sky is an anagram of "Rocket Boys", the memoir it is based on. The name change was due to the intervention of Universal Studios marketing personnel who conducted research showing that women in their 30s would never see a movie titled "Rocket Boys."
mKNx TIL of Namibia, one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, whose constitution preserves the health of its ecosystem. It has the largest Cheetah population in the world.
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Br84D TIL about Juan Pujol García, a double agent who tricked German leaders about the date and location of the invasion of Normandy which lead to its success. He was notable for having received distinction from both sides; the Iron Cross from the Nazis and membership of the Order of the British Empire