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TIL about Transient Global Amnesia, a temporary loss of memory that can be triggered by stressful events, strenuous activity, migraines, and even sex.

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p8jDN TIL the local government of the area where "Parasite" was shot is now planning to turn the set into a "Parasite" experience tourism facility.
kVVm TIL that the Jonas Salk, who developed the world’s first successful Polio vaccine, refused to patent his discovery. The vaccine was valued to be worth $7 billion had it been patented.
wLK4P TIL that, in the early 20th century, a company called Nutex made condoms that glowed in the dark thanks to them being infused with a radioactive element.
69WMl TIL; The character of Rocky was based upon a real life boxer who was not expected to go 3 rounds against Muhammad Ali. To everyone's surprise, he went 15 rounds.
KKk9 TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender