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TIL: That cocaine increases dopamine levels by roughly 250% in comparison with 100% from sex and %50 from food

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nee79 TIL Marlon Brando was the last person to reject a winning Oscar award (1973 best actor for The Godfather). He did it to protest the film industry's poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman gave her speech in Brando's place, part of the crowd booed.
J1QRl TIL That there is a GPT called Today I Learned where every fact you learn unlocks a treasure trove of interesting and related facts.
d8JQB TIL Nintendo started as a Card Company in 1889 and launched Hanafuda Cards and these cards were actually used in Japan as a replacement of Gambling Cards as they were banned by Japanese Government
a8M59 TIL that JFK didn’t invite Sammy Davis Jr. to his 1961 inauguration as Sammy had married a white woman, and JFK was worried that the presence of an interracial couple would upset Southerners. Dean Martin, who was angered by this news, refused to attend the inauguration in solidarity with Sammy.
OGLJ7 TIL that Konrad Schumann, the subject of the famous photo of a soldier escaping communist East Berlin to the capitalist West, went to visit his family in former East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They rejected him, considering him a traitor, and he committed suicide several years later.