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TIL that not all people have the same subconscious though. Roughly 10% of people either "talk to themself" or "see images", 3/4 of the people are somewhere in between

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xDOo TIL that Pepsi created a contest where people could win a car if they picked the right key for it from their provided options. However, when a man was able to open it, he was sued by Pepsi, since the contest was supposed to be impossible to win because the right key for the car wasn’t available.
OG0Lg TIL that Bolaji Badejo, a 6 foot 10 Nigerian visual artist, played the original Alien (1979)’s xenomorph. His height and slender body convinced Ridley Scott that he was a perfect choice for the villain. He also died from sickle cell disease at age 39.
R7kD4 TIL that there is a prisoner in the UK named Robert Maudsley who has spent 40 years in solitary confinement. He killed one person and was put in prison and killed another 2 people while in prison. His cell is like the one in 'Silence of the Lambs' with Hannibal Lecter.
PYv4J TIL that the skatman was made to help people with stammers. Scatman John himself suffered from a severse stammer
65Gm TIL that two of the moons in our solar system (Ganymede & Titan) are actually larger than the planet Mercury.