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TIL To understand a pun, your brain' right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of it

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4XgON TIL that Vin Diesel named his daughter Pauline in honor of his late friend, Paul Walker.
P1Vae TIL of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, the third most lethal in human history with 44 million lives claimed as of 2025. Though the disease is manageable with modern medicine and treated infected people have normal life expectancies, the late 20th century life expectancy after the diagnosis was just 18 months
v1lYr TIL Anchorites took their religious devotion to extreme levels, vowing to remain walled into a cell for the rest of their lives. This mostly happened to the Middle Ages, but also in modern times, some chose the life of an anchorite.
9Yx4X TIL Stephen Hawking liked "The Theory Of Everything" so much that he allowed the filmmakers to use his trademarked computerized voice on it. He called the film "broadly true" and emailed the filmmakers that there were certain points when he thought he was watching himself, which left him tearful.
W6rL TIL that Richard Mansfield, one of the first actors to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was so good at acting a psychopath that he became a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, was reported to the police and had his career decline afterwards from suspicion.