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TIL that it takes only 15 mins. of exposure to noise in a nightclub, without protection, to damage hearing

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YmQd TIL after Christopher Reeve’s injury, Robin Williams burst into his room in the ICU in full scrubs and claimed he was a proctologist and that he was going to perform a rectal exam. Reeve said it was the first time he had laughed since the accident, and he knew somehow everything was going to be okay
KYY8R TIL Chef Boyardee was head chef at the Plaza Hotel prior to launching his canned foods brand
oyK8 TIL North Korea invented its own basketball scoring system: three points for a dunk, four points for a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds
AK8n TIL that there are two other wizards inhabiting Middle-Earth that aren’t mentioned in the Lord of the Rings trilogy or The Hobbit; their names are Alatar and Pallando.
E1kdx TIL the very first automation happened was via first Electronic Computer Colossus, to reduce the time for decoding World War II messages between Hitler & his Generals, from six weeks to six hours, at Bletchley Park in England.