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TIL Crispin Glover, who played Michael J Fox’s father in Back to the Future, is actually younger than him.

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v174K TIL about Mauro Prosperi who was lost in the Sahara. To avoid agonizing death from starvation and to save his wife from legal red tape, he slashed his wrists with a knife. However, due to his severe dehydration, his blood had clotted around the cuts. He reached a nomad tribe a few days later.
6EG9w TIL There are no reported cases of runners dying of dehydration during marathons — but there are plenty of cases of runners dying from water intoxication.
GVWg TIL Colorado projects $578.1 million in marijuana sales.
KOO7Q Imagine yourself at a concert hall looking at a symphonic orchestra on stage. Have you ever noticed that high-pitched strings sit left of low-pitched strings? Going from left to right, one usually sees violins, violas, cellos and double basses. That is, one moves from high pitches on the left to low pitches on the right. Why? The orchestra’s arrangement is not a cultural oddity, like driving on the right side of the road. Rather, it is due to our own biological makeup. Higher pitches tend to be better processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, while lower pitches tend to be better processed by a similar region in the right hemisphere. This organisation is thought to have repercussions far beyond music, perhaps even helping to explain why language is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. So the part of my brain that better processes high sounds sits where the higher-pitched instruments sit: on the left. But that’s not the end of the story.
M7wrm TIL the US Postal Service's (unofficial) motto, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers...", comes from Greek historian Herodotus' description of the Achaemenid Persian's Angarium couriers who ran a Pony Express style courier service for their king.