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TIL Brain Training games don’t make you any smarter.
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TIL dead ants emit a chemical that tells other ants to move the body to a sort of burial ground. If this chemical is sprayed on a live ant, other ants will treat it as a dead ant, regardless of what the live/dead ant does.
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TIL that during the first few minutes of The Hunt for Red October the film switches from Russian to English. The switch occurs on the word “Armageddon”, which is the same in both languages.
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TIL 10% of people have a mutation that triples their frontal cortex dopamine and makes them feel twice as much pleasure.
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TIL that when Star Wars was first being made in 1977 the long title crawl at the start of the film, describing the lore ahead of the action, was actually a 6ft long piece of black paper with yellow text, and the camera was then rolled over the paper to make it appear as if the text was moving.
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TIL the first koalas to live outside of Australia were named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and arrived at the San Diego Zoo in 1925