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TIL Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent

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BrW0b TIL Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
rD51 TIL In the six days it takes to complete an episode, “South Park” employees typically put in 100 hours per week.
69dAJ TIL Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India
GYPRG TIL each year, small groups of eastern gray whales travel from the northern Pacific Ocean along the coast of western North America to the warm waters of southern California and northern Mexico and then back in what is considered the longest annual migration of any mammal, up to 22,000km/13,700miles.
p8v14 TIL that when you listen to someone speak, you are hearing an uninterrupted stream of sound called continuous speech--the pauses between words are all in your head.