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TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to make Harry Potter an animated movie.

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dDRy9 TIL In addition to being blind, Stevie Wonder temporarily lost his sense of smell and taste after a car crash in 1973
4Xbea TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.
wLlJE TIL of a bear that lives in the desert. The Gobi bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis) is a subspecie of Brown Bear that lives in Mongolia.
REJa TIL that a spring in Wyoming named Intermittent Spring flows for 18 minutes, then abruptly stops flowing for another 18 minutes.
jN4ZX TIL During the Korean War, English-born John Koelsch was the first helicopter pilot awarded the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for volunteering to rescue a downed Marine without a fighter escort. He, his crew, and the pilot were all captured, yet Koelsch never broke despite dying in captivity.