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TIL that using your non-dominant hand for mundane tasks, like eating or opening doors, for two weeks can improve your self-control and memory.

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wLlAE TIL Babe Ruth returned to Boston for his last MLB season, playing for the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves)
m1l1P TIL In 1874 Tom Collins was a fake individual used to prank people. The prankster would tell the victim that Collins had slandered them and have the victim pursue the fictional man. Newspapers would go to make fake reports on Collins and music halls had songs about the event.
MeLGb TIL that sodium laureth sulfate, an ingredient in toothpaste, makes it hard to taste sweetness, and that's why drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth tastes weird.
KpvJ TIL in 2009, Miller High Life bought one second of commercial time for the Super Bowl and saw sales go up 8.6%
mrRv TIL after both had become massively famous, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood got drunk and pissed on the grave of a studio exec who had fired them