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TIL Adam Sandler's movie "50 First Dates" inspired a real therapy program in which patients with early dementia watch every morning a video message of support from their loved ones.

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VBwJ4 TIL The origins of hummus are hotly debated with the Lebanese, Turks, Syrians and Israelis all claiming to have invented the dish. International lawsuits and appeals to the UN and the EU have resulted from the so called 'hummus wars.' We do know the dish is likely about 700 years old
B9lb TIL that two researchers, funded by the British government, developed a mathematical formula for the “perfect human voice.” The male voices that matched most closely were Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons; the closest matching female voices were Judi Dench, Mariella Frostrup, and Honor Blackman.
e0bV4 TIL Living things such as the jewel wasp can make their victims, cockroaches, into their "zombies".
awr4Z TIL samurai would poop with one leg completely out of their pant leg in case they needed to fight during a visit to the bathroom.
alL0 TIL that the Baby Boomers were nicknamed the “Me Generation” due to their perceived narcissism.