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TIL that Slovenia's national anthem is called "A Toast" (Zdravljica)

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6ElvX TIL refrigerators deliberately heat parts of themselves to avoid condensation.
D1oBD TIL M. Night Shyamalan was offered to direct Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, he dropped out to direct The Village instead. It was his second offer to direct Harry Potter films, the first one was The Philosopher's Stone, and the third one was The Goblet of Fire.
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
b678p TIL that the popularity of Tom Yum and other Thai dishes led to the employment of 120,000 people in Malaysia
p8mPA TIL that the studies focusing on human nature and behaviour overlook 85% of the people on Earth. Majority of these studies take into account a narrow slice of humanity - college students, people living near universities and highly educated residents of wealthy and industrialised countries.