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

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j6wBv TIL that despite it being one of her best known songs, Doris Day hated performing "Que Sera, Sera", calling it "a kiddie song" and considered it inappropriate for the film it was written for, The Man Who Knew Too Much (which is about a kidnapped child). She eventually refused to ever sing it again.
V0Lm TIL John Adams felt that though independence and a free government sounded appealing in theory, he feared “that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.”
KOpaJ TIL a Cure for Malaria was found by Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou amongst 1600 year old Taoist manuscripts titled "The emergency perscriptions kept up ones sleave"
8egXL TIL all the instruments on Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You are either programmed or from a synthesizer. Carey’s co-writer on the song, Walter Afanasieff originally had a live band do the instrumental but was unsatisfied with the result and redid it by himself.
GZLJ TIL Two ultramarathoners — Kevin Carr of the U.K. and Dotknac Swiata from Poland — on separate treks around the globe crossed paths by accident in a Dutch village.