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TIL When twister was introduced in 1966,it was denounced by critics as"sex in a box"

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69dyw TIL The lines "No man is an island" and "...for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." Both come from Meditation XVII of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Donne quickly wrote his meditations following a terrible illness.
jNjGQ TIL William James saw the "social self" as a self each person has that adapts to the social context of a group, meaning that it's observable to behave differently in group situations and even within differing groups
ZaRR TIL to prepare for the role of Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Alan Tudyk joined a group of pirate role players called the Rumrunners and spent a week at Pirate Camp.
6EPgW TIL Beyoncé’s hit “If I were a boy” it’s not original and was released as a single without the author’s permission. The “terms” that Beyonce had come to with were to allow to do a duet together if BC Jean the author of the song were to get her own record deal. That has not happened yet for Jean.
yVYMX TIL 50% of humans are infected with Toxoplasma gondii parasite that, among all else, causes victims to feel affection towards cats