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TIL Tonal languages are more likely to evolve in humid climates.

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N6d1 TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left.
Z8WED TIL Home Alone was filmed in an abandoned high school (and Ferris Bueller's Day Off was filmed there too)
X0kLX TIL Of pancake syndrome, an illness derived from eating contaminated pancakes. Illness comes from having an allergic reaction to eating flour containing dust mites.
EkLV TIL one of the main reasons why industrial hemp is illegal was because Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp removed as competition
R7JD8 TIL: That Anthropologist Rudolf Martin discovered there are actually 16 different eye colors and created the "Martin Scale", which was then expanded to 20 different eye colors, called the "Martin-Schultz Scale".