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Short answer: It’s spiritualist bunk that reflected the science of its time

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6XlY TIL Joel McHale of ‘Community’ fame won a Rose Bowl ring in 1991
4Va TIL Bruce Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away was determined to be around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second)
5Y8M8 TIL that the skin colour of apples darkens with exposure to UV
oBWnE TIL New Jersey lost $140M in tax revenue after a hedge fund billionaire moved to Florida.
Wknoo TIL of Clifford Johnson who survived the Cocoanut Grove fire and became the most severely burned person to survive his injuries at his time while trying to save his date. 21 months later he would marry his nurse that treated him at the hospital and die in fiery car crash 15 years later.