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TIL Famed Skeptic James Randi will often swallow entire bottles of “Homeopathic Sleeping Pills” in front of live audiences to prove that they are nothing more than fake pills.

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jN8pj TIL wilhelm screen has been used in many Disney movies as an in-joke including toy story
9YORG TIL of Bartholomäus Traubeck, an artist and engineer who discovered how to make music from tree rings. “A record player that plays slices of wood, [in which] year ring data is translated into music." The trees year rings are analyzed and this data is used to generate piano music.
xV9QB TIL: Mangos are in the same family as poison ivy, so if you are sensitive to poison ivy, the skin of a mango is likely to affect you too.
P1QOG TIL that American athlete Florence Griffith Joyner is the fastest woman ever recorded. The record is still standing after 35 years. She passed away at the age of 38.
EgYZp TIL the current record for the loudest NFL stadium is 142 decibels. Over 30 decibels greater than a sonic boom produced by a military fighter jet breaking the speed of sound